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

Markovic N (2015) SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. Randomness rules. Science 350:509

A journal article with 2 authors

Treves A, Bruskotter J (2014) Ecology. Tolerance for predatory wildlife. Science 344:476–477

A journal article with 3 authors

Sokolov S, Scheuer T, Catterall WA (2007) Gating pore current in an inherited ion channelopathy. Nature 446:76–78

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Koenigs M, Young L, Adolphs R, et al (2008) Koenigs et al. reply. Nature 452:e5–e6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Means RS (2010) Green Building: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Matyáš V, Fischer-Hübner S, Cvrček D, Švenda P (eds) (2009) The Future of Identity in the Information Society: 4th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.6, 11.7/FIDIS International Summer School, Brno, Czech Republic, September 1-7, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Harrison SD (2012) Singing, Men and Australian Culture. In: Harrison SD, Welch GF, Adler A (eds) Perspectives on Males and Singing. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 65–75

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 E (2015) Will Head Transplants Create An Entirely New Person? 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 (1996) Highway Trust Fund: Financial Status and Outlook. 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

Prosky J (2012) Meisner and the problem of character. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly C (2008) Over the Years, It Feels Right at Home. New York Times LI4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Markovic 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Treves and Bruskotter 2014; Markovic 2015).

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

Two authors: (Treves and Bruskotter 2014)
Three or more authors: (Koenigs 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

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