How to format your references using the Sports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Cohen, M.R. Eppendorf Winner. When Attention Wanders. Science 2012, 338, 58–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kalcheim, C.; Rohrer, H. Neuroscience. Following the Same Nerve Track toward Different Cell Fates. Science 2014, 345, 32–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saá, P.; Castilla, J.; Soto, C. Presymptomatic Detection of Prions in Blood. Science 2006, 313, 92–94.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ying, Y.-L.; Zhang, J.; Meng, F.-N.; Cao, C.; Yao, X.; Willner, I.; Tian, H.; Long, Y.-T. A Stimuli-Responsive Nanopore Based on a Photoresponsive Host-Guest System. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Relethford, J.H. 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017; ISBN 9781119308058.

An edited book

Bio-Inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations; Hassanien, A.E., Kim, T.-H., Kacprzyk, J., Awad, A.I., Eds.; Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; Vol. 70; ISBN 9783662436158.

A chapter in an edited book

Rini, A. The Birth of Proof: Modality and Deductive Reasoning. In Logic and Its Applications: 5th Indian Conference, ICLA 2013, Chennai, India, January 10-12, 2013. Proceedings; Lodaya, K., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 34–49 ISBN 9783642360381.

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 Sports.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Scientists Create Solid Light Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/crystallized-light-reveals-potential/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Traffic Safety: Improved Reporting and Performance Measures Would Enhance Evaluation of High-Visibility Campaigns; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monterosa, V.M. Digital Citizenship District-Wide: Examining the Organizational Evolution of an Initiative. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Southall, A.; McKINLEY, J.C., Jr Caregiver Who Abused 4-Year-Old Boy Faces 22-Year Sentence for Murder. New York Times 2016, A22.

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	Sports
Abbreviation	Sports
ISSN (online)	2075-4663
Scope