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

Chou, C.-P. (2014). Network robustness: detecting topological quantum phases. Scientific reports, 4, 7526.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kilpatrick, A. M., & Ives, A. R. (2003). Species interactions can explain Taylor’s power law for ecological time series. Nature, 422(6927), 65–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kossin, J. P., Emanuel, K. A., & Vecchi, G. A. (2014). The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity. Nature, 509(7500), 349–352.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Johnston, W. K., Unrau, P. J., Lawrence, M. S., Glasner, M. E., & Bartel, D. P. (2001). RNA-catalyzed RNA polymerization: accurate and general RNA-templated primer extension. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5520), 1319–1325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak, A. I., & Lerner, P. J. (2011). Essentials of Intellectual Property. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mavronicolas, M., & Papadopoulou, V. G. (Eds.). (2009). Algorithmic Game Theory: Second International Symposium, SAGT 2009, Paphos, Cyprus, October 18-20, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5814). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, S. (2013). Laziness by Need. In M. Felleisen & P. Gardner (Eds.), Programming Languages and Systems: 22nd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 81–100). 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, D. (2016, September 29). Record High To Record Low: What On Earth Is Happening To Antarctica’s Sea Ice? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/record-high-to-record-low-what-on-earth-is-happening-to-antarcticas-sea-ice/. 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. (1973). Contract Between the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the University of Kansas for a Study of the Aspects of Rapid Acculturation in the Pacific (No. B-114888). 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

Tan, S. W. (2013). A pedagogical approach to selected études from Étude en douze exercices, S.136 and Études d ’exécution transcendante, S.139 by Franz Liszt (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Protess, B. (2016, September 7). This Lender Isn’t Fazed by U.S. Rule. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chou 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chou 2014; Kilpatrick and Ives 2003).

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

Two authors: (Kilpatrick and Ives 2003)
Three or more authors: (Johnston et al. 2001)

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