How to format your references using the Sports Coaching Review citation style

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

Howard, K. (2003). The view from the top. Nature, 426(6967), 696–697.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guiver, M. D., & Lee, Y. M. (2013). Materials science. Polymer rigidity improves microporous membranes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6117), 284–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinoshita, T., Wenger, T., & Weiss, D. S. (2004). Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5687), 1125–1128.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Perez, F. F., Fontela, M., García-Ibáñez, M. I., Mercier, H., Velo, A., Lherminier, P., Zunino, P., de la Paz, M., Alonso-Pérez, F., Guallart, E. F., & Padin, X. A. (2018). Meridional overturning circulation conveys fast acidification to the deep Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 554(7693), 515–518.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etheridge, D. (2010). Excel® Data Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Greene, F. L., & Komorowski, A. L. (Eds.). (2012). Clinical Approach to Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancers (1st ed. 2012). Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Lorenzini, A., & Maier, A. B. (2016). Influence of Donor Age and Species Longevity on Replicative Cellular Senescence. In S. I. S. Rattan & L. Hayflick (Eds.), Cellular Ageing and Replicative Senescence (pp. 49–70). Springer International Publishing.

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 Coaching Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 2). NASA Announces Plans To Send Astronauts To Mars In Mid-2030s. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-astronauts-will-head-mars-mid-2030s/

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. (2001). Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision (GAO-01-436). 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

Li, J. (2015). Growth Prediction of New Fractures in the Shadows of Existing Hydraulic Fractures in Shale Gas Formations [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Vlasic, B., & Chapman, M. M. (2015, November 25). New Math for Detroit. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Howard, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Guiver & Lee, 2013; Howard, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Guiver & Lee, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Perez et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sports Coaching Review
Abbreviation	Sports Coach. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2164-0629
ISSN (online)	2164-0637
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