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

Killian, Thomas C. “Ultracold Neutral Plasmas.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5825 (May 4, 2007): 705–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter, N. J., and R. A. Cross. “Mechanics of the Kinesin Step.” Nature 435, no. 7040 (May 19, 2005): 308–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coulson, Tim, Jan Lindström, and Peter Cotgreave. “Ecology. Seeking New Recruits.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295, no. 5562 (March 15, 2002): 2023–24.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tang, Zhiyong, Zhenli Zhang, Ying Wang, Sharon C. Glotzer, and Nicholas A. Kotov. “Self-Assembly of CdTe Nanocrystals into Free-Floating Sheets.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314, no. 5797 (October 13, 2006): 274–78.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McPhee, Peter. A Companion to the French Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

Ribes, Ramón. English for Biomedical Scientists. Edited by Palma Iannarelli and Rafael F. Duarte. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi, Juwei, Hua Lu, Jiaheng Lu, and Chengxuan Liao. “A Skylining Approach to Optimize Influence and Cost in Location Selection.” In Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 19th International Conference, DASFAA 2014, Bali, Indonesia, April 21-24, 2014. Proceedings, Part II, edited by Sourav S. Bhowmick, Curtis E. Dyreson, Christian S. Jensen, Mong Li Lee, Agus Muliantara, and Bernhard Thalheim, 61–76. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

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

Luntz, Stephen. “The Hydrocarbon Winds of Titan Explained.” IFLScience. IFLScience, June 19, 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. “Reports and Testimony: December 1995.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 1, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Larson, Sarah Elizabeth. “A Case of Rational Irrationality: Evidence of Expressive Interest Bias in State e-Commerce Sales and Use Tax Legislation.” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2014.

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

Keith, Susan, and John Oudens. “Half the Fun Is in Getting There.” New York Times, May 28, 2016.

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)

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