How to format your references using the Science et Sports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science et Sports. 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

[1]

Chapman T. Protein purification: pure but not simple. Nature 2005;434:795–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang Y, Robinson GH. Chemistry. Building a Lewis base with boron. Science 2011;333:530–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bustamante CD, Burchard EG, De la Vega FM. Genomics for the world. Nature 2011;475:163–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chambers I, Silva J, Colby D, Nichols J, Nijmeijer B, Robertson M, et al. Nanog safeguards pluripotency and mediates germline development. Nature 2007;450:1230–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McGrath AE. Luther’s Theology of the Cross. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Conrady R, Buck M, editors. Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Prassas ES, Roess RP. The Costs of Transportation for Alternative Economic Analysis. In: Roess RP, editor. Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 73–111.

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 Science et Sports.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Oldest Known Human Fossil Discovered. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/28-million-year-old-jawbone-oldest-homo-fossil-ever-discovered/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Strategic Airlift: Further Efforts Can Be Taken to Extend Aircraft Service Life. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Schulz JL. Factors Affecting Prey Availability and Habitat Usage of Wintering Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in Coastal Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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

[1]

Kolomatsky M. Career Over, Where to Move? New York Times 2017:RE2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Science et Sports
Abbreviation	Sci. Sports
ISSN (print)	0765-1597
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine