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

Odling-Smee, Lucy. “Science Education: A Science Giant Moves House.” Nature 496, no. 7444 (April 11, 2013): 167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mackinnon, M. J., and K. Marsh. “The Selection Landscape of Malaria Parasites.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328, no. 5980 (May 14, 2010): 866–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wagner, Peter J., Matthew A. Kosnik, and Scott Lidgard. “Abundance Distributions Imply Elevated Complexity of Post-Paleozoic Marine Ecosystems.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314, no. 5803 (November 24, 2006): 1289–92.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Okada, Ryuichi, Hidetoshi Ikeno, Toshifumi Kimura, Mizue Ohashi, Hitoshi Aonuma, and Etsuro Ito. “Error in the Honeybee Waggle Dance Improves Foraging Flexibility.” Scientific Reports 4 (February 26, 2014): 4175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boberski, Vincent. Community Banking Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Borcard, Daniel. Numerical Ecology with R. Edited by Francois Gillet and Pierre Legendre. Use R. New York, NY: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, Jin-Rong, and John W. Erdman. “Soy Consumption and Cancer Prevention.” In Preventive Nutrition: The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, edited by Adrianne Bendich and Richard J. Deckelbaum, 123–55. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2005.

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. “How Did Mars Lose Its Habitable Climate? The Answer Is Blowing In The Solar Wind.” IFLScience. IFLScience, November 6, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-did-mars-lose-its-habitable-climate-answer-blowing-solar-wind/.

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. “Assessment of the Work Incentive Program in Washington State.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 25, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valadez, Ibeth. “A Psycho-Education Peer Support Group for Homeless Youth: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: More Delay In Final Verdict For Tycoon.” New York Times, May 18, 2005.

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)