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

Kaiser, C.R. Astronomy. Simmering, Not Boiling. Science 2007, 318, 404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Odegaard, J.I.; Chawla, A. Pleiotropic Actions of Insulin Resistance and Inflammation in Metabolic Homeostasis. Science 2013, 339, 172–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plaks, V.; Koopman, C.D.; Werb, Z. Cancer. Circulating Tumor Cells. Science 2013, 341, 1186–1188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Song, W.; Wei, Q.; Liu, W.; Liu, T.; Yi, J.; Sheibani, N.; Fawzi, A.A.; Linsenmeier, R.A.; Jiao, S.; Zhang, H.F. A Combined Method to Quantify the Retinal Metabolic Rate of Oxygen Using Photoacoustic Ophthalmoscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Segura, J.; Hawkins, C.F. CMOS Electronics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471728528.

An edited book

Diabetes & C-Peptide: Scientific and Clinical Aspects; Sima, A.A.F., Ed.; Contemporary Diabetes; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781617793905.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirsch, F.; Profeta, C.; Roynette, B.; Yor, M. The Time Inversion Method. In Peacocks and Associated Martingales, with Explicit Constructions; Profeta, C., Roynette, B., Yor, M., Eds.; Bocconi & Springer Series; Springer: Milano, 2011; pp. 163–179 ISBN 9788847019072.

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. Massive Sea Creature Attacks, Kills And Eats A 3 Meter Long Great White Shark Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/massive-sea-creature-attacks-kills-and-eats-3-meter-long-great-white-shark/ (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 Higher Education: Factors Lenders Consider in Making Lending Decisions for Private Education Loans; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wignall, J. No Longer in the Shadows: Identity, Citizenship, and Belonging among Undocumented College Students in Southern California. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

de la MERCED, M.J. Ex-Google Venture Capitalist Is Opening Fund of His Own. New York Times 2017, B4.

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