How to format your references using the Religions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Religions. 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

Smaglik, P. Election Returns. Nature 2004, 432, 417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sprecher, S.G.; Desplan, C. Switch of Rhodopsin Expression in Terminally Differentiated Drosophila Sensory Neurons. Nature 2008, 454, 533–537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn, K.H.; Lookman, T.; Bishop, A.R. Strain-Induced Metal-Insulator Phase Coexistence in Perovskite Manganites. Nature 2004, 428, 401–404.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Potok, R.M.; Rau, I.G.; Shtrikman, H.; Oreg, Y.; Goldhaber-Gordon, D. Observation of the Two-Channel Kondo Effect. Nature 2007, 446, 167–171.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy, T. Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118586525.

An edited book

Polymer Libraries; Meier, M.A.R., Webster, D.C., Eds.; Advances in Polymer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 225; ISBN 9783642001697.

A chapter in an edited book

Croker, A.; Croker, J.; Grotowski, M. Changing Directions in Healthcare. In Health Practice Relationships; Higgs, J., Croker, A., Tasker, D., Hummell, J., Patton, N., Eds.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2014; pp. 27–36 ISBN 9789462097889.

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 Religions.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Why Is Oil And Gas Activity Causing Earthquakes? And Can We Reduce The Risk? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-oil-and-gas-activity-causing-earthquakes-and-can-we-reduce-risk/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Financial Management Systems: Additional Efforts Needed to Address Key Causes of Modernization Failures; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Barham, O.M. Microfabricated Bulk Piezoelectric Transformers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2017.

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

Wagner, J. Baseball; Mets’ Wright Has Another Operation. New York Times 2017, B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Religions
Abbreviation	Religions (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2077-1444
Scope