How to format your references using the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Díaz, V. (2007). Researchers without frontiers. Nature, 446(7134), 466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Logan, G. D., & Crump, M. J. C. (2010). Cognitive illusions of authorship reveal hierarchical error detection in skilled typists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6004), 683–686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eremtchenko, M., Schaefer, J. A., & Tautz, F. S. (2003). Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design. Nature, 425(6958), 602–605.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yoon, J., Jo, S., Chun, I. S., Jung, I., Kim, H.-S., Meitl, M., Menard, E., Li, X., Coleman, J. J., Paik, U., & Rogers, J. A. (2010). GaAs photovoltaics and optoelectronics using releasable multilayer epitaxial assemblies. Nature, 465(7296), 329–333.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Primak, S. L., & Kontorovich, V. (2011). Wireless Multi-Antenna Channels. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Andreß, H.-J. (2013). Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys (K. Golsch & A. W. Schmidt, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pistone, G., & Vicario, G. (2009). Design for Computer Experiments: Comparing and Generating Designs in Kriging Models. In P. Erto (Ed.), Statistics for Innovation: Statistical Design of “Continuous” Product Innovation (pp. 91–102). Springer.

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 Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, May 2). Kennewick Man To Be Repatriated To Pacific Northwest Tribes After DNA Tests Confirm Relationship. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/kennewick-man-be-repatriated-pacific-northwest-tribes/

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. (1987). Aviation Security: FAA Needs Preboard Passenger Screening Performance Standards (RCED-87-182). 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

Ugwu, R. I. (2012). Perceptions of elementary teachers from an urban school district in Southern California regarding their inquiry-based science instructional practices, assessment methods, and professional development [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Hodgman, J. (2016, November 23). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM34.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Díaz, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Díaz, 2007; Logan & Crump, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Logan & Crump, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yoon et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Sport Exerc. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1750-984X
ISSN (online)	1750-9858
Scope	Applied Psychology