How to format your references using the Journal of Sport and Health Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sport and Health Science (JSHS). 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

Crutzen PJ. Anthropocene man. Nature 2010;467:S10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chameides WL, Bergin M. Climate change. Soot takes center stage. Science 2002;297:2214–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang B, Xu S, Wu L. Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms. Nature 2012;489:E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meyerson JR, Rao P, Kumar J, Chittori S, Banerjee S, Pierson J, et al. Self-assembled monolayers improve protein distribution on holey carbon cryo-EM supports. Sci Rep 2014;4:7084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lundberg U, Cooper CL. The Science of Occupational Health. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

Cazenave T, Winands MHM, Iida H, editors. Computer Games: Workshop on Computer Games, CGW 2013, Held in Conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China, August 3, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. XI, 133 p. 24 illus. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 408).

A chapter in an edited book

Ekardt F. Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory. In: Hollo EJ, Kulovesi K, Mehling M, editors. Climate Change and the Law. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.p.63–79.

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 Journal of Sport and Health Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. Can Trees Really Change Sex? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/can-trees-really-change-sex/

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. Protest of Army Contract Award for ADP Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 Apr. Report No.: B-177278.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gajewski TJ. Exploring leadership styles from a mediator’s perspective: A phenomenological study examining four specific organizational leadership styles and their relationship to four mediation styles as summarized by Leonard L. Riskin [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University, 2014.

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

Hodara S. Canvases So Big They Are Seldom Seen. New York Times 2015 Feb 15;WE9.

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	Journal of Sport and Health Science
Abbreviation	J. Sport Health Sci.
ISSN (print)	2095-2546
ISSN (online)	2213-2961
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation