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

Houck, Oliver 2003. ‘Tales from a Troubled Marriage: Science and Law in Environmental Policy’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 302. 1926–1929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yue, Yuanzheng; Angell, C. Austen 2004. ‘Clarifying the Glass-Transition Behaviour of Water by Comparison with Hyperquenched Inorganic Glasses’, Nature 427. 717–720.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich, G.; Fouxon, A.; Stepanov, M. G. 2002. ‘Acceleration of Rain Initiation by Cloud Turbulence’, Nature 419. 151–154.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Khare, Garima; Reddy, P. Vineel; Sidhwani, Pragya; Tyagi, Anil K. 2013. ‘KefB Inhibits Phagosomal Acidification but Its Role Is Unrelated to M. Tuberculosis Survival in Host’, Scientific Reports 3. 3527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Chevalier, François; Lesselier, Dominique; Staraj, Robert 2011. Non-Standard Antennas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Venkataraman, Hrishikesh; Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (eds.) 2012. Cognitive Radio and Its Application for Next Generation Cellular and Wireless Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, Nirbhay K.; Patel, D. B. 2012. ‘Microalgae for Bioremediation of Distillery Effluent’. In Farming for Food and Water Security, ed. Eric Lichtfouse. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Dordrecht: 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 Religion in the Roman Empire.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise 2014. ‘Mysterious Ovoid Structure in Martian Meteorite Looks Like A Cell’, 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 1991. ‘Space Shuttle: NASA Faces Challenges in Its Attempt to Achieve Planned Flight Rates’, 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

Carver, James Richmond 2009. ‘CMO: Chief Marketing Officer or Chief “Marginalized” Officer’, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Hollander, Sophia 2000. ‘Hard Feelings’, .

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