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

Morris, P. Joseph E. Murray (1919-2012). Nature 2013, 493, 164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sijen, T.; Plasterk, R.H.A. Transposon Silencing in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Germ Line by Natural RNAi. Nature 2003, 426, 310–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Damasceno, P.F.; Engel, M.; Glotzer, S.C. Predictive Self-Assembly of Polyhedra into Complex Structures. Science 2012, 337, 453–457.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sylantyev, S.; Savtchenko, L.P.; Niu, Y.-P.; Ivanov, A.I.; Jensen, T.P.; Kullmann, D.M.; Xiao, M.-Y.; Rusakov, D.A. Electric Fields Due to Synaptic Currents Sharpen Excitatory Transmission. Science 2008, 319, 1845–1849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malpass, D.B.; Band, E.I. Introduction to Industrial Polypropylene; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118463215.

An edited book

Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics: Insect Proteomics, Vol.2; Raman, C., Goldsmith, M.R., Agunbiade, T.A., Eds.; Entomology in Focus; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 4; ISBN 9783319242422.

A chapter in an edited book

Aydogan-Duda, N. Business Environment, Innovation Culture, and Technology Clusters in Developing Countries. In Making It to the Forefront: Nanotechnology—A Developing Country Perspective; Aydogan-Duda, N., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2012; pp. 41–46 ISBN 9781461415442.

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

Luntz, S. Icelandic Volcano Reveals How Calderas Form (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 Computer Misuse by the Sigma Corporation, a NASA Contractor; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1978;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zimmerman, T.F. A Descriptive Review of the Development and Implementation of a Funding Model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: The First 10 Years, 1998–2008. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS, 2010.

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

Koblin, J. The Ratings for ‘Megyn Kelly Today’? Well, There’s Always Tomorrow. New York Times 2017, B2.

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
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