How to format your references using the Journal of Religion and Health citation style

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

Yamamoto, A. (2000). Crowded universities cramp more than just students’ style. Nature, 404(6773), 13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neale, M. J., & Keeney, S. (2006). Clarifying the mechanics of DNA strand exchange in meiotic recombination. Nature, 442(7099), 153–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berciu, M., Rappoport, T. G., & Jankó, B. (2005). Manipulating spin and charge in magnetic semiconductors using superconducting vortices. Nature, 435(7038), 71–75.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, L., Li, Y., Wang, R., Yin, C., Dong, Q., Hing, H., et al. (2007). Drosophila hygrosensation requires the TRP channels water witch and nanchung. Nature, 450(7167), 294–298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richter, D. H. (2017). Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gübitz, G., Bauer, A., Bochmann, G., Gronauer, A., & Weiss, S. (Eds.). (2015). Biogas Science and Technology (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 151). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, F.-J. (2013). Theoretical Foundation for Spirituality-Oriented Holistic Art Education: Integration of Eastern and Western Aesthetics. In S. Leong & B. W. Leung (Eds.), Creative Arts in Education and Culture: Perspectives from Greater China (pp. 55–67). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Religion and Health.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 20). Shaquille O’Neal Thinks Earth Is Flat Because It Doesn’t Go Up And Down When He Drives. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/shaquille-oneal-thinks-earth-is-flat-because-it-doesnt-go-up-and-down-when-he-drives/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2016). Smartphone Data: Information and Issues Regarding Surreptitious Tracking Apps That Can Facilitate Stalking (No. GAO-16-317). 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

Volle, M. (2017). Exploring the relationship of meetings to organizational culture and values (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Johnson, G. (2014, May 20). Creation, in the Eye of the Beholder. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yamamoto 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Neale and Keeney 2006; Yamamoto 2000).

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

Two authors: (Neale and Keeney 2006)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Religion and Health
Abbreviation	J. Relig. Health
ISSN (print)	0022-4197
ISSN (online)	1573-6571
Scope	Religious studies General Medicine General Nursing