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

Schlessinger, J. (2003). Signal transduction. Autoinhibition control. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5620), 750–752.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gottesman, S., & Maurizi, M. R. (2001). Cell biology. Surviving starvation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 614–615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey, J. M., Brust-Mascher, I., & Mogilner, A. (2003). Cell division. Nature, 422(6933), 746–752.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Joshi, N., Shirsath, N., Singh, A., Joshi, K. S., & Banerjee, R. (2014). Endogenous lung surfactant inspired pH responsive nanovesicle aerosols: pulmonary compatible and site-specific drug delivery in lung metastases. Scientific reports, 4, 7085.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiman, J. (2012). As Free and as Just as Possible. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Rensink, A., & Warmer, J. (Eds.). (2006). Model Driven Architecture – Foundations and Applications: Second European Conference, ECMDA-FA 2006, Bilbao, Spain, July 10-13, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4066). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lionetti, F. V., McCulloch, A. D., & Baden, S. B. (2010). Source-to-Source Optimization of CUDA C for GPU Accelerated Cardiac Cell Modeling. In P. D’Ambra, M. Guarracino, & D. Talia (Eds.), Euro-Par 2010 - Parallel Processing: 16th International Euro-Par Conference, Ischia, Italy, August 31 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 38–49). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, July 8). Black-Hole-Scope Could Reveal the Mystery of how Cosmic Jets Form. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-hole-scope-could-reveal-mystery-how-cosmic-jets-form/. 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. (2016). Environmental Satellites: NOAA Needs to Ensure Its Timelines Are Accurate, Clear, and Fully Documented (No. GAO-16-767). 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

De la Pena Wing, T. (2010). Remembering Malintzin’s dream: A bridge between two cultures through language and love (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Wasik, J. F. (2016, October 14). Regular Investing Smooths the Market’s Ups and Downs. New York Times, p. BU14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlessinger 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gottesman and Maurizi 2001; Schlessinger 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gottesman and Maurizi 2001)
Three or more authors: (Joshi 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
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