How to format your references using the The International Sports Law Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Sports Law Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kessin RH (2010) Microbiology. Sex and sacrifice. Science 330:1487–1488

A journal article with 2 authors

Namouni F, Porco C (2002) The confinement of Neptune’s ring arcs by the moon Galatea. Nature 417:45–47

A journal article with 3 authors

Yartsev MM, Witter MP, Ulanovsky N (2011) Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats. Nature 479:103–107

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prainsack B, Reardon J, Hindmarsh R, et al (2008) Personal genomes: Misdirected precaution. Nature 456:34–35

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews C (2012) Engineers’ Data Book. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ghosh M, Sarkar D, Roy BC (eds) (2015) Diversification of Agriculture in Eastern India. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Hepburn HR, Pirk CWW, Duangphakdee O (2014) Communication by Vibrations and Scents in the Comb. In: Pirk CWW, Duangphakdee O (eds) Honeybee Nests: Composition, Structure, Function. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–103

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 Sports Law Journal.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) A New AI Called Nightmare Machine Has Just Opened Up A Portal To Hell. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1992) Earth Observing System: Broader Involvement of the EOSDIS User Community Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gossett JM (2009) Autobiographical insights into the spiritual psychologies of Jung and Bion. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: Protesters Sentenced. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kessin 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Namouni and Porco 2002; Kessin 2010).

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

Two authors: (Namouni and Porco 2002)
Three or more authors: (Prainsack et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Sports Law Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Sports Law J.
ISSN (print)	1567-7559
ISSN (online)	2213-5154
Scope	Law