How to format your references using the The International Sports Law Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Sports Law Journal. 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

Bentley DR (2004) Genomes for medicine. Nature 429:440–445

A journal article with 2 authors

Didenko YT, Suslick KS (2002) The energy efficiency of formation of photons, radicals and ions during single-bubble cavitation. Nature 418:394–397

A journal article with 3 authors

Cao A, Romanowicz B, Takeuchi N (2005) An observation of PKJKP: inferences on inner core shear properties. Science 308:1453–1455

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Palatnik JF, Allen E, Wu X, et al (2003) Control of leaf morphogenesis by microRNAs. Nature 425:257–263

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geren RL (2016) Applying the Building Code. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Abraham D, Handler C, Dashwood M, Coghlan G (eds) (2012) Translational Vascular Medicine: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Jou JYH, Fu LF, Lin AY (2015) The Ethical Decision Making of Marketing Professionals in Taiwan. In: Chebat J-C, Oumlil AB (eds) Proceedings of the 1998 Multicultural Marketing Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 24–29

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 The International Sports Law Journal.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Why Do So Many People Sneeze When They Look At The Sun? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-so-many-people-sneeze-when-they-look-at-the-sun/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1997) Highway Safety: NHTSA’s Motorcycle Helmet Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cleveland JD (2014) A comparative study of genetic diversities among exploited flatfishes of the California Slope with emphasis on Dover sole (Microstomus pacificus). 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) From the Land of the Moon. New York Times C8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bentley 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Didenko and Suslick 2002; Bentley 2004).

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

Two authors: (Didenko and Suslick 2002)
Three or more authors: (Palatnik et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Sports Law Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Sports Law J.
ISSN (print)	1567-7559
ISSN (online)	2213-5154
Scope	Law