How to format your references using the British Journal of Religious Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Religious Education. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Gates, Melinda French. 2014. “Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6202): 1273–1275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Price, D. J., and S. Rosswog. 2006. “Producing Ultrastrong Magnetic Fields in Neutron Star Mergers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5774): 719–722.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singhal, Neelja, Manish Kumar, and Jugsharan Singh Virdi. 2014. “Molecular Analysis of β-Lactamase Genes to Understand Their Differential Expression in Strains of Yersinia Enterocolitica Biotype 1A.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5270.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hirotsune, Shinji, Noriyuki Yoshida, Amy Chen, Lisa Garrett, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Satoru Takahashi, Ken-Ichi Yagami, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, and Atsushi Yoshiki. 2003. “An Expressed Pseudogene Regulates the Messenger-RNA Stability of Its Homologous Coding Gene.” Nature 423 (6935): 91–96.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheller-Sheridan, Carmen. 2011. Basic Guide to Dental Instruments. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Madsen, Tatiana K., Jimmy J. Nielsen, and Nuno K. Pratas, eds. 2016. Multiple Access Communications: 9th International Workshop, MACOM 2016, Aalborg, Denmark, November 21-22, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 10121. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, Xiaomei. 2013. “The Evaluation Model of Construction Industry Financial Risk Based on SVM.” In Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 2013, edited by Zhixiang Yin, Linqiang Pan, and Xianwen Fang, 37–44. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 British Journal of Religious Education.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2015. “Hubble Snaps Picture Of Some Of The Earliest Known Galaxies.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-sees-its-earliest-galaxies/.

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. 2009. Federal Lands: Survey of Land Managers’ Perspectives of Off-Highway Vehicle Use (GAO-09-547SP, June 2009), an E-Supplement to GAO-09-509. GAO-09-547SP. Washington, DC: 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

Dasari, Rohith Abhishek. 2016. “Automatic Driving System by Recognizing Road Signs Using Digital Image Processing.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2006. “Court Limits Protection Against Improper Entry.” New York Times, June 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gates 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gates 2014; Price and Rosswog 2006).

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

Two authors: (Price and Rosswog 2006)
Three authors: (Singhal, Kumar, and Virdi 2014)
4 or more authors: (Hirotsune et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Religious Education
Abbreviation	Br. J. Relig. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0141-6200
ISSN (online)	1740-7931
Scope	Religious studies Education