How to format your references using the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 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

Aubert, J. (2015). PLANETARY SCIENCE. Ancient planetary dynamos, take two. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6247), 475–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogura, K., & Okamura, H. (2013). Conformational change of Sos-derived proline-rich peptide upon binding Grb2 N-terminal SH3 domain probed by NMR. Scientific Reports, 3, 2913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pevzner, P. A., Kim, S., & Ng, J. (2008). Comment on “Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5892), 1040; author reply 1040.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Raber, J., Wong, D., Yu, G. Q., Buttini, M., Mahley, R. W., Pitas, R. E., & Mucke, L. (2000). Apolipoprotein E and cognitive performance. Nature, 404(6776), 352–354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitai, A. (2011). Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Diodes: The role of the PN junction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zerr, B., Jaulin, L., Creuze, V., Debese, N., Quidu, I., Clement, B., & Billon-Coat, A. (Eds.). (2016). Quantitative Monitoring of the Underwater Environment: Results of the International Marine Science and Technology Event MOQESM´14 in Brest, France (Vol. 6). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kamat, R. K., Shinde, S. A., & Shelake, V. G. (2009). Arithmetic Core Design and Design Reuse of Soft IP Cores. In S. A. Shinde & V. G. Shelake (Eds.), Unleash the System On Chip using FPGAs and Handel C (pp. 81–113). Springer Netherlands.

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 Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 8). Students Use 3-D Printer To Produce Prosthetic Arm For $200. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/students-use-3-d-printer-produce-prosthetic-arm-200/

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. (2001). Intercollegiate Athletics: Four-Year Colleges’ Experiences Adding and Discontinuing Teams (GAO-01-297). 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

Shelton-Quinn, A. (2009). Increasing positive peer reporting and on -task behavior using a peer monitoring interdependent group contingency program with public posting [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Hartman, S. (2015, May 15). Love, Redeployed. New York Times, MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aubert, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Aubert, 2015; Ogura & Okamura, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ogura & Okamura, 2013)
Three authors: (Pevzner et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Raber et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Abbreviation	Psycholog. Relig. Spiritual.
ISSN (print)	1941-1022
ISSN (online)	1943-1562
Scope	Religious studies Applied Psychology Social Psychology