How to format your references using the Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 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

Benderly, Beryl Lieff. 2005. “Not Your Father’s Postdoc.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5722): 717–718.

A journal article with 2 authors

Selosse, Marc-André, and François Rousset. 2011. “Evolution. The Plant-Fungal Marketplace.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6044): 828–829.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhara, Sajal, Eugene J. Mele, and Ritesh Agarwal. 2015. “APPLIED OPTICS. Voltage-Tunable Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Silicon Nanowires.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6249): 726–729.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kaindl, R. A., M. A. Carnahan, D. Hägele, R. Lövenich, and D. S. Chemla. 2003. “Ultrafast Terahertz Probes of Transient Conducting and Insulating Phases in an Electron-Hole Gas.” Nature 423 (6941): 734–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Port, Michael. 2008. Beyond Booked Solid. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Anderson, James V., ed. 2015. Advances in Plant Dormancy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tristão, Juliana C., José D. Ardisson, Maria Terezinha C. Sansiviero, and Rochel M. Lago. 2009. “Reduction of Hematite with Ethanol to Produce Magnetic Nanoparticles of Fe3O4, Fe1 − x O or Fe0 Coated with Carbon.” In LACAME 2008: Proceedings of the 11th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, (LACAME 2006) Held in La Plata, 9-14 November 2008, edited by J. Desimoni, C. P. Ramos, Bibiana Arcondo, F. D. Saccone, and R. C. Mercader, 15–19. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2016. “Male Spiders Who Bring ‘Nuptial Gifts’ Are Cannibalized Less.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 20. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-spiders-who-bring-nuptial-gifts-are-cannibalized-less/.

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. 2016. Youth with Autism: Roundtable Views of Services Needed During the Transition into Adulthood. GAO-17-109. 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

Nichol, Kathy P. 2013. “English Language Learners and Gifted Identification: Exploring the Perceptions of Teachers and Parents.” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Hubbard, Ben. 2017. “Hezbollah Wields Rising Power as Iran’s Enforcer.” New York Times, August 27, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benderly 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Benderly 2005; Selosse and Rousset 2011).

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

Two authors: (Selosse and Rousset 2011)
Three authors: (Dhara, Mele, and Agarwal 2015)
4 or more authors: (Kaindl et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
Abbreviation	Phys. Educ. Sport Pedagogy
ISSN (print)	1740-8989
ISSN (online)	1742-5786
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Education Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation