How to format your references using the European Sport Management Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Sport Management Quarterly. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Marx, V. (2014). When disease strikes from nowhere. Nature, 513(7518), 445–448.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dey, S., & Joshi, A. (2013). Effects of constant immigration on the dynamics and persistence of stable and unstable Drosophila populations. Scientific Reports, 3, 1405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldberg, P., Berna, F., & Macphail, R. I. (2009). Comment on “DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5937), 148; author reply 148.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lou, X., Hong, Y., Chen, S., Leung, C. W. T., Zhao, N., Situ, B., Lam, J. W. Y., & Tang, B. Z. (2014). A selective glutathione probe based on AIE fluorogen and its application in enzymatic activity assay. Scientific Reports, 4, 4272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Callahan, K. R., Stetz, G. S., & Brooks, L. M. (2011). Project Management Accounting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chatterjee, A., & Siarry, P. (Eds.). (2013). Computational Intelligence in Image Processing. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Izmailov, A. F., & Solodov, M. V. (2014). Variational Problems: Globalization of Convergence. In M. V. Solodov (Ed.), Newton-Type Methods for Optimization and Variational Problems (pp. 305–366). Springer International Publishing.

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 European Sport Management Quarterly.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, September 9). Bats Cock Their Heads In An Adorable Way To Help Them Hunt Better. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bats-cock-their-heads-in-an-adorable-way-to-help-them-hunt-better/

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. (1983). [Suitability of the MUMPS Language for Government Agencies] (B-203143). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crivello, A. (2009). DNA methylation of the interferon-gamma promoter in association with overexpression of the interferon-gamma gene in periodontal disease [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

George, R. (2011, April 25). Flying the Flag, Fleeing The State. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dey & Joshi, 2013; Marx, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dey & Joshi, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Sport Management Quarterly
Abbreviation	Eur. Sport Manag. Q.
ISSN (print)	1618-4742
ISSN (online)	1746-031X
Scope	Strategy and Management Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management