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

Hansen, B. 2000. ‘A Bright Future for Dark Matter’, Nature 403. 30–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Malik, Sohail; Roeder, Robert G. 2013. ‘Biochemistry. Have Your PIC!’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 342. 706–707.

A journal article with 3 authors

Agrawal, Tanvi; Schu, Peter; Medigeshi, Guruprasad R. 2013. ‘Adaptor Protein Complexes-1 and 3 Are Involved at Distinct Stages of Flavivirus Life-Cycle’, Scientific Reports 3. 1813.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Bates, Mark; Huang, Bo; Dempsey, Graham T.; Zhuang, Xiaowei 2007. ‘Multicolor Super-Resolution Imaging with Photo-Switchable Fluorescent Probes’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 317. 1749–1753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karlson, Bo; Bria, Aurelian; Lind, Jonas; Lönnqvist, Peter; Norlin, Cristian 2005. Wireless Foresight. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rosenberg, Amy; Demeule, Barthélemy (eds.) 2015. Biobetters: Protein Engineering to Approach the Curative. AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, Dongliang; Leung, Henry 2010. ‘An EM-IMM Method for Simultaneous Registration and Fusion of Multiple Radars and ESM Sensors’. In Advances in Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, ed. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Henry Leung. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. 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 Religion in the Roman Empire.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle 2016. ‘Monkeys In South America Are Almost All Colour Blind And No One Knows Why’, 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 1996. ‘Federal Research: Interim Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Programs’, 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

Eaglen Bertrando, Sharen Linn 2017. ‘Rethinking Workplace Learning in the Digital World: A Case Study of Open Badges’, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Silver-Greenberg, Jessica; Protess, Ben; Corkery, Michael 2017. ‘Deal With Saudis Underlines Benefits of Backing President’, .

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