How to format your references using the International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology (IJREP). 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

Karsenty G. (2003). The complexities of skeletal biology. Nature, 423, 316–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller AI, Foote M. (2003). Increased longevities of post-Paleozoic marine genera after mass extinctions. Science, 302, 1030–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cossairt BM, Diawara M-C, Cummins CC. (2009). Facile synthesis of AsP3. Science, 323, 602.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

An J, Park JS, Koh AL, Lee HB, Jung HJ, Schoonman J, Sinclair R, Gür TM, Prinz FB. (2013). Atomic scale verification of oxide-ion vacancy distribution near a single grain boundary in YSZ. Sci Rep, 3, 2680.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fränzle S, Markert B, Wünschmann S. (2012). Introduction to Environmental Engineering. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Zhang R. (2005). Fuzzy Control of Queuing Systems. Phillis YA, Kouikoglou VS (eds), London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li S, Mao J, Wang S. (2008). Cylinder Head Fem Analysis and its Improvement. In: Li D (ed) Computer And Computing Technologies In Agriculture, Volume II: First IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA 2007), Wuyishan, China, August 18-20, 2007, The International Federation for Information Processing, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp 761–8.

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 International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew D. (2017). We’ve Calculated The Environmental Cost Of A Loaf Of Bread – And What to Do About It. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/weve-calculated-the-environmental-cost-of-a-loaf-of-bread-and-what-to-do-about-it/ [Accessed October 30, 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. (1973). Protest of NASA Contract Award. Washington, DC: 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

Tiedemann-Fuller PM. (2008). A descriptive Rorschach study of children who have experienced chronic complex abuse. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Gustines GG. (2012). Kick Up Those Heels. New York Times, C37.

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	International Journal of Research in Exercise Physiology
ISSN (online)	2640-9461
Scope