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

Cohen, M. L. (2000). Changing patterns of infectious disease. Nature, 406(6797), 762–767.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, M. J., & Righter, K. (2002). Determining the composition of the Earth. Nature, 416(6876), 39–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., & Escuillié, F. (2004). Pterosaurs as part of a spinosaur diet. Nature, 430(6995), 33.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sun, Y., Wang, J., Zhao, W., Tian, M., Singh, M., & Chan, M. H. W. (2013). Voltage-current properties of superconducting amorphous tungsten nanostrips. Scientific reports, 3, 2307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Family Firm Institute, Inc. (2013). Family Enterprise. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gelbukh, A. (Ed.). (2013). Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 14th International Conference, CICLing 2013, Samos, Greece, March 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 7817). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Türler, A., & Gregorich, K. E. (2014). Experimental Techniques. In M. Schädel & D. Shaughnessy (Eds.), The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements (pp. 261–308). 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, E. (2015, November 5). Landmark Trial Finds Injection Every Other Month Treats HIV Patients. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/landmark-trial-shows-injection-every-other-month-treats-hiv-patients/. 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). Federal Communications Commission: Use of the 28 GHz and 31 GHz Bands for Local Multipoint Distribution Service (No. OGC-97-40). 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

Mac Garrigle, E. F. (2006). A validation of the enterprise management engineering approach to knowledge management systems engineering (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, September 17). A Sour Surprise for Public Pensions. New York Times, p. BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cohen 2000; Drake and Righter 2002).

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

Two authors: (Drake and Righter 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2013)

About the journal

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