How to format your references using the Religion in the Roman Empire citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE). 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

Montesi, Laurent G. J. 2013. ‘Planetary Science. Solving the Mascon Mystery’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 340. 1535–1536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogue, Terri S.; Pincetl, Stephanie 2015. ‘WATER CONSERVATION. Are You Watering Your Lawn?’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 348. 1319–1320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ebel, Chantal; Mariconti, Luisa; Gruissem, Wilhelm 2004. ‘Plant Retinoblastoma Homologues Control Nuclear Proliferation in the Female Gametophyte’, Nature 429. 776–780.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Lando, David; Peet, Daniel J.; Whelan, Dean A.; Gorman, Jeffrey J.; Whitelaw, Murray L. 2002. ‘Asparagine Hydroxylation of the HIF Transactivation Domain a Hypoxic Switch’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 295. 858–861.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liautaud, Martine 2016. Breaking Through. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yadav, Shyam S.; McNeil, David L.; Stevenson, Philip C. (eds.) 2007. Lentil: An Ancient Crop for Modern Times. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Borgianni, Yuri; Cascini, Gaetano; Rotini, Federico 2012. ‘Application of IPPR to the Reengineering Problems of Class 1’. In Re-engineering of Products and Processes: How to Achieve Global Success in the Changing Marketplace, ed. Yuri Borgianni, Gaetano Cascini. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. London: 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 Religion in the Roman Empire.

Blog post

Fang, Janet 2015. ‘Sticky Plant Wears Armor of Dead Insects’, IFLScience.

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 2000. ‘Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements’, 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

Grether, Scott 2012. ‘All You Need Is Love? An Examination of Interracial Divorce’, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Murphy, Mary J. O. 2010. ‘For Giddyup, Give a Horse a Holiday’, .

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Religion in the Roman Empire
ISSN (print)	2199-4463
ISSN (online)	2199-4471
Scope