How to format your references using the The International Journal of the History of Sport citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Journal of the History of Sport. 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

Takahashi, Taro. “Ocean Science. The Fate of Industrial Carbon Dioxide.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305, no. 5682 (July 16, 2004): 352–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonnet, Roger-Maurice, and Johan A. M. Bleeker. “Astrophysics. A Dark Age for Space Astronomy?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333, no. 6039 (July 8, 2011): 161–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Magavi, S. S., B. R. Leavitt, and J. D. Macklis. “Induction of Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Mice.” Nature 405, no. 6789 (June 22, 2000): 951–55.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Oda, Yukako, Nobuko Hosokawa, Ikuo Wada, and Kazuhiro Nagata. “EDEM as an Acceptor of Terminally Misfolded Glycoproteins Released from Calnexin.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5611 (February 28, 2003): 1394–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bannwarth, Helmut. Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

Lin, Tsau Young, Ying Xie, Anita Wasilewska, and Churn-Jung Liau, eds. Data Mining: Foundations and Practice. Vol. 118. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Franzke, Jochen, and Eva Roeder. “Chapter Five Participatory Budgeting in Berlin-Lichtenberg: An Example of Good Urban Governance?” In The Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices, edited by Frank Hendriks, Alberto Gianoli, and Linze Schaap, 87–103. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2015.

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 The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Is the Universe Ringing Like a Bell?” IFLScience. IFLScience, June 30, 2015.

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. “Amtrak: Contracting Improprieties by Chief Engineer.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 26, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wead, Matthew Owen. “Fear and Doubt.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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

Weiner, Jonah. “A Fight Is Brewing.” New York Times, March 26, 2014.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Journal of the History of Sport
Abbreviation	Int. J. Hist. Sport
ISSN (print)	0952-3367
ISSN (online)	1743-9035
Scope	History Social Sciences (miscellaneous)