How to format your references using the Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sport, Exercise, and Performance 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	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

Dalcanton, J. J. (2009). 18 years of science with the Hubble Space Telescope. Nature, 457(7225), 41–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, B. G., & Dye, C. (2003). Antiretroviral drugs for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV/AIDS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1535–1537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, C., Xuong, N.-H., & Taylor, S. S. (2005). Crystal structure of a complex between the catalytic and regulatory (RIalpha) subunits of PKA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5710), 690–696.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lasorella, A., Stegmüller, J., Guardavaccaro, D., Liu, G., Carro, M. S., Rothschild, G., de la Torre-Ubieta, L., Pagano, M., Bonni, A., & Iavarone, A. (2006). Degradation of Id2 by the anaphase-promoting complex couples cell cycle exit and axonal growth. Nature, 442(7101), 471–474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, B. R. (2009). Fundraising Law Made Easy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Velmezova, E., Kull, K., & Cowley, S. J. (Eds.). (2015). Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 13). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Smyth, J., Down, B., & McInerney, P. (2014). Socially Critical Pedagogy of Teaching. In B. Down & P. McInerney (Eds.), The Socially Just School: Making Space for Youth to Speak Back (pp. 93–110). Springer Netherlands.

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 Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 16). New Type Of Computer Capable Of Calculating 640TBs Of Data In One Billionth Of A Second, Could Revolutionize Computing. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-type-computer-capable-calculating-640tbs-data-one-billionth-second-could/

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. (1977). Impact of Illegal Aliens on Public Assistance Programs: Too Little Is Known (GGD-78-20). 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

Alvarez, C. (2015). Support groups for children of depressed parents: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2017, May 20). U.S. Sues UnitedHealth Over Medicare Charges. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalcanton, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dalcanton, 2009; Williams & Dye, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Williams & Dye, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lasorella et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology
Abbreviation	Sport Exerc. Perform. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	2157-3905
ISSN (online)	2157-3913
Scope	Applied Psychology Social Psychology Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation