How to format your references using the Culture and Religion citation style

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

Smaglik, P. 2001. “Asthma Study Death Spurs Inquiry.” Nature 411 (6840): 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murray, Jessica, and Paul Segall. 2002. “Testing Time-Predictable Earthquake Recurrence by Direct Measurement of Strain Accumulation and Release.” Nature 419 (6904): 287–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foreman, Brady Z., Paul L. Heller, and Mark T. Clementz. 2012. “Fluvial Response to Abrupt Global Warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene Boundary.” Nature 491 (7422): 92–95.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chiorescu, I., Y. Nakamura, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij. 2003. “Coherent Quantum Dynamics of a Superconducting Flux Qubit.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5614): 1869–1871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Funk, Werner, Vera Dammann, Gerhild Donnevert, Sarah Ianelli, Eric Ianelli, and Ann Gray. 2006. Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Valsiner, Jaan, Giuseppina Marsico, Nandita Chaudhary, Tatsuya Sato, and Virginia Dazzani, eds. 2016. Psychology as the Science of Human Being: The Yokohama Manifesto. 1st ed. 2016. Vol. 13. Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hungr, Oldrich. 2007. “Dynamics of Rapid Landslides.” In Progress in Landslide Science, edited by Kyoji Sassa, Hiroshi Fukuoka, Fawu Wang, and Gonghui Wang, 47–57. 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 Culture and Religion.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “A Group Of Migrants Broke Into A Truck And Came Face To Face With A Polar Bear.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/migrants-interrupt-polar-bears-trip-yorkshire-wildlife-park/.

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. 2000. Telecommunications: Technological and Regulatory Factors Affecting Consumer Choice of Internet Providers. GAO-01-93. 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

Lee, Samuel. 2013. “Control-Display Alignment Modulates Dimensional Salience.” 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

Protess, Ben. 2016. “Apollo Global Settles Securities Case as the S.E.C. Imposes a $53 Million Fine.” New York Times, August 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2001; Murray and Segall 2002).

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

Two authors: (Murray and Segall 2002)
Three authors: (Foreman, Heller, and Clementz 2012)
4 or more authors: (Chiorescu et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Culture and Religion
Abbreviation	Cult. Relig.
ISSN (print)	1475-5610
ISSN (online)	1475-5629
Scope	Philosophy Religious studies Cultural Studies