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

McDonough, W. F. (2011). Geochemistry. Meteoritic clues point chromium toward Earth’s core. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6023), 1397–1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schier, A. F., & Shen, M. M. (2000). Nodal signalling in vertebrate development. Nature, 403(6768), 385–389.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, H., Wen, B., & Melnik, R. (2014). Relative importance of grain boundaries and size effects in thermal conductivity of nanocrystalline materials. Scientific Reports, 4, 7037.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Guiso, L., Monte, F., Sapienza, P., & Zingales, L. (2008). Diversity. Culture, gender, and math. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5880), 1164–1165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Madden, B. J. (2010). Wealth Creation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Duplantier, B., & Rivasseau, V. (Eds.). (2015). Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012: Poincaré Seminar 2012 (Vol. 67). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gupta, A., & Talwar, K. (2008). How to Complete a Doubling Metric. In E. S. Laber, C. Bornstein, L. T. Nogueira, & L. Faria (Eds.), LATIN 2008: Theoretical Informatics: 8th Latin American Symposium, Búzios, Brazil, April 7-11, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 36–47). 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 Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 25). Deep Calls Or Big Balls? Howler Monkeys Are Either All Mouth, Or All Trousers. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deep-calls-or-big-balls-howler-monkeys-are-either-all-mouth-or-all-trousers/

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. (1998). Federal Research: The National Academy of Sciences and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (RCED-99-17). 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

Mantilla, A. N. (2012). The differences in the educational experiences and caregiver involvement in education between youth in foster care and those in care of their biological parents [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gorman, J. (2017, February 13). More Than the Sum of Its Parts. New York Times, D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McDonough, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (McDonough, 2011; Schier & Shen, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Schier & Shen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Guiso et al., 2008)

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