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

Blatt, R. (2001). Delicate information. Nature, 412(6849), 773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giovannoni, S., & Nemergut, D. (2014). Ecology. Microbes ride the current. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6202), 1246–1247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shinde, D. B., Majumder, M., & Pillai, V. K. (2014). Counter-ion dependent, longitudinal unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to highly conductive and transparent graphene nanoribbons. Scientific reports, 4, 4363.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sgamma, T., Jackson, A., Muleo, R., Thomas, B., & Massiah, A. (2014). TEMPRANILLO is a regulator of juvenility in plants. Scientific reports, 4, 3704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bliesner, D. M. (2006). Establishing a CGMP Laboratory Audit System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rojas, I., Joya, G., & Catala, A. (Eds.). (2015). Advances in Computational Intelligence: 13th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2015, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 10-12, 2015. Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 9094). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Louberry, C., Roose, P., & Dalmau, M. (2011). Kalimucho: Contextual Deployment for QoS Management. In P. Felber & R. Rouvoy (Eds.), Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 11th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 6-9, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 43–56). 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 Journal of Religion and Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 2). El Niño Is Here And That Means Droughts, But They Don’t Work How You Might Think. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/el-ni-o-here-and-means-droughts-they-don-t-work-how-you-might-think/. 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. (1991). Aviation Safety: Emergency Revocation Orders of Air Carrier Certificates (No. RCED-92-10). 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

Arnold, D. M. (2017). An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Belson, K., & Pilon, M. (2012, October 30). Marathon Officials Determining How to Proceed. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blatt 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Blatt 2001; Giovannoni and Nemergut 2014).

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

Two authors: (Giovannoni and Nemergut 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sgamma et al. 2014)

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