How to format your references using the Sports Coaching Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sports Coaching Review. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Eckhardt, B. (2011). Applied physics. A critical point for turbulence. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6039), 165–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

Csabai, I., & Szathmáry, E. (2011). Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6034), 1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks, S. J., Currie, B., & Bakun, A. (2002). Massive emissions of toxic gas in the Atlantic. Nature, 415(6871), 493–494.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gogurla, N., Sinha, A. K., Santra, S., Manna, S., & Ray, S. K. (2014). Multifunctional Au-ZnO plasmonic nanostructures for enhanced UV photodetector and room temperature NO sensing devices. Scientific Reports, 4, 6483.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Zink, M. (2005). Scalable Video on Demand. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Ng, I., Parry, G., Wild, P., McFarlane, D., & Tasker, P. (Eds.). (2011). Complex Engineering Service Systems: Concepts and Research. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sz.-Nagy, B., Bercovici, H., Foias, C., & Kérchy, L. (2010). Operator-Valued Analytic Functions. In C. Foias, H. Bercovici, & L. Kérchy (Eds.), Harmonic Analysis of Operators on Hilbert Space (pp. 189–241). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Sports Coaching Review.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, September 12). 55-Million-Year-Old Fossils Hint That Primates First Evolved In India. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/55millionyearold-fossils-hint-that-primates-first-evolved-in-india/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1985). Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General, Vol. II, No. 1 (129141). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lingley-Papadopoulos, C. A. (2008). Image analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography images of the urinary bladder for the recognition of bladder cancer [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Barnes, B., & Koblin, J. (2017, May 1). ABC’s ‘Live’ Ends Search, Naming Seacrest Co-Host. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Eckhardt, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Csabai & Szathmáry, 2011; Eckhardt, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Csabai & Szathmáry, 2011)
Three authors: (Weeks et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Gogurla et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sports Coaching Review
Abbreviation	Sports Coach. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2164-0629
ISSN (online)	2164-0637
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