How to format your references using the The Physician and Sportsmedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Physician and Sportsmedicine. 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

Koenig R. ACADEMIC FREEDOM: Political Scientist Becomes Cause Celebre. Science. 2000;289(5481):846b-847b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guo Z, Ohlstein B. Stem cell regulation. Bidirectional Notch signaling regulates Drosophila intestinal stem cell multipotency. Science. 2015;350(6263).

A journal article with 3 authors

Cappellini E, Collins MJ, Gilbert MTP. Biochemistry. Unlocking ancient protein palimpsests. Science. 2014;343(6177):1320-1322.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sreekanth KV, Krishna KH, De Luca A, Strangi G. Large spontaneous emission rate enhancement in grating coupled hyperbolic metamaterials. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6340.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abner DJ. The ETF Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Cheung KW. Flash Application Design Solutions: The Flash Usability Handbook. (Bryant C, ed.). Apress; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Pieraccini R. The Industry of Spoken-Dialog Systems and the Third Generation of Interactive Applications. In: Chen F, ed. Speech Technology: Theory and Applications. Springer US; 2010:61-77.

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 Physician and Sportsmedicine.

Blog post

Andrew D. Why Do We Get Dizzy? IFLScience.

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. New Denver Airport: Impact of the Delayed Baggage System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Topdemir CM. School Counselor Accountability Practices: A National Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 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

Packer G. Left Behind. New York Times. September 22, 2002:642.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	The Physician and Sportsmedicine
Abbreviation	Phys. Sportsmed.
ISSN (print)	0091-3847
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation