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

Cheianov, Vadim V. 2009. “Physics. When Infinity Does Not Count.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5911): 213–214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Insel, Thomas R., and Barbara J. Sahakian. 2012. “Drug Research: A Plan for Mental Illness.” Nature 483 (7389): 269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xi, Zhiyong, Cynthia C. H. Khoo, and Stephen L. Dobson. 2005. “Wolbachia Establishment and Invasion in an Aedes Aegypti Laboratory Population.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5746): 326–328.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yang, Shengxue, Sefaattin Tongay, Qu Yue, Yongtao Li, Bo Li, and Fangyuan Lu. 2014. “High-Performance Few-Layer Mo-Doped ReSe₂ Nanosheet Photodetectors.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Uriev, Naum B. 2016. Technology of Dispersed Systems and Materials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Stolerman, Ian P., and Lawrence H. Price, eds. 2015. Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hughes, Graham R. V. 2009. “‘Multiple Sclerosis’ …….” In Understanding Hughes Syndrome: Case Studies for Patients, edited by Graham R. V. Hughes, 10–11. London: 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. “‘Doomsday’ Vault Flooded After Permafrost Melts Due To Climate Change.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2013. Interstate Compacts: Transparency and Oversight of Bi-State Tolling Authorities Could Be Enhanced. GAO-13-687. 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

Goodwell, Laura Y. 2017. “Do Athletic Trainers Have a Positive Impact on High School Athletes’ Knowledge of Injury Prevention and Training Habits?” 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

Eligon, John, and Mitch Smith. 2017. “Police Shooting Rattles Somalis in Minneapolis.” New York Times, July 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cheianov 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cheianov 2009; Insel and Sahakian 2012).

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

Two authors: (Insel and Sahakian 2012)
Three authors: (Xi, Khoo, and Dobson 2005)
4 or more authors: (Yang et al. 2014)

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