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

Bland, P. A. (2008). Astronomy. Small-scale observations tell a cosmological story. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 61–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teague, B. P., & Weiss, R. (2015). SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. Synthetic communities, the sum of parts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6251), 924–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Persha, L., Agrawal, A., & Chhatre, A. (2011). Social and ecological synergy: local rulemaking, forest livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6024), 1606–1608.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dogan, J., Mu, X., Engström, Å., & Jemth, P. (2013). The transition state structure for coupled binding and folding of disordered protein domains. Scientific reports, 3, 2076.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bittner, M. (2014). Temporality: Universals and Variation. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hussain, O. K. (2013). Risk Assessment and Management in the Networked Economy. (T. S. Dillon, F. K. Hussain, & E. J. Chang, Eds.) (Vol. 412). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, L., Fieguth, P., Wang, X., Pietikäinen, M., & Hu, D. (2016). Evaluation of LBP and Deep Texture Descriptors with a New Robustness Benchmark. In B. Leibe, J. Matas, N. Sebe, & M. Welling (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 69–86). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. (2015, July 22). Returning To The Moon Is Ten Times Cheaper Than Thought, And It Could Lead To Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/returning-moon-ten-times-cheaper-thought-and-could-lead-mars/. 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. (1997). Education Programs: Major Issues Affecting Postsecondary Education, School-to-Work, and Youth Employment Programs (No. HEHS-97-212R). 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

Wenger, M. C. (2011). Free-choice family learning experiences at informal astronomy observing events (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Ryerson, J. (2017, August 18). Being and Gnarliness. New York Times, p. BR16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bland 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bland 2008; Teague and Weiss 2015).

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

Two authors: (Teague and Weiss 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dogan et al. 2013)

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