How to format your references using the Journal of Religious Education citation style

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

Degen, M. (2003). Science has flourished in eastern Germany since reunification, bringing researchers from far and near. But the tide of investment may be turning. Nature, 423(6936), 204–205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kioussis, D., & Georgopoulos, K. (2007). Epigenetic flexibility underlying lineage choices in the adaptive immune system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5838), 620–622.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dai, L., Korolev, K. S., & Gore, J. (2013). Slower recovery in space before collapse of connected populations. Nature, 496(7445), 355–358.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sano, Y., Kawayama, I., Tabata, M., Salek, K. A., Murakami, H., Wang, M., et al. (2014). Imaging molecular adsorption and desorption dynamics on graphene using terahertz emission spectroscopy. Scientific reports, 4, 6046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rezzoug, A., & El-Hadi Zaïm, M. (2011). Non-conventional Electrical Machines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cardoso, J., & Sheth, A. (Eds.). (2005). Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition: First International Workshop, SWSWPC 2004, San Diego, CA, USA, July 6, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3387). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borgaonkar, R., Redon, K., & Seifert, J.-P. (2012). Experimental Analysis of the Femtocell Location Verification Techniques. In T. Aura, K. Järvinen, & K. Nyberg (Eds.), Information Security Technology for Applications: 15th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2010, Espoo, Finland, October 27-29, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 49–54). 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 Religious Education.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, March 9). Why Artificial Turf May Truly Be Bad For Kids. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-artificial-turf-may-truly-be-bad-for-kids/. 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. (1978). BPA Management of ADP Systems Development Activities (No. B-115369). 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

Lamb, B. K. (2015). A Comparison of Carbon Dioxide Emissions at a Roundabout and a Signalized Intersection in a Mid-Sized City (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Hodara, S. (2015, February 1). A Museum’s New Spaces for Contemporary Art. New York Times, p. CT9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Degen 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Degen 2003; Kioussis and Georgopoulos 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kioussis and Georgopoulos 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sano et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Religious Education
Abbreviation	J. Relig. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1442-018X
ISSN (online)	2199-4625
Scope