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

Fray D (2013) Metallurgy: iron production electrified. Nature 497:324–325

A journal article with 2 authors

Venters BJ, Pugh BF (2013) Genomic organization of human transcription initiation complexes. Nature 502:53–58

A journal article with 3 authors

Zimmer J, Nam Y, Rapoport TA (2008) Structure of a complex of the ATPase SecA and the protein-translocation channel. Nature 455:936–943

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yelin D, Rizvi I, White WM, et al (2006) Three-dimensional miniature endoscopy. Nature 443:765

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM (2011) Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Gonzalez MJ (2014) New Insights on Vitamin C and Cancer. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Besnard P, Grégoire É, Ramon S (2011) Enforcing Logically Weaker Knowledge in Classical Logic. In: Xiong H, Lee WB (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: 5th International Conference, KSEM 2011, Irvine, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 44–55

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

Andrew D (2016) Did We Used To Have Two Sleeps Rather Than One? Should We Again? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/did-we-used-to-have-two-sleeps-rather-than-one-should-we-again/. 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 (1990) The President’s Decision to Order a Chinese Company’s Divestiture of a Recently Acquired U.S. Aircraft Parts Manufacturer. 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

Hitchins MG (2017) Domain Disparity: Informing the Debate between Domain-General and Domain-Specific Information Processing in Working Memory. 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

Wagner J (2017) Baseball; Rainout Gives Injured Mets More Rest. New York Times B14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fray 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Fray 2013; Venters and Pugh 2013).

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

Two authors: (Venters and Pugh 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yelin et al. 2006)

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