How to format your references using the Review of Religious Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Religious Research. 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

Egger, Anne E. 2012. IBI series winner. Engaging students in earthquakes via real-time data and decisions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336: 1654–1655.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoshi, E., and J. Tanji. 2000. Integration of target and body-part information in the premotor cortex when planning action. Nature 408: 466–470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Faehnle, Christopher R., Jack Walleshauser, and Leemor Joshua-Tor. 2014. Mechanism of Dis3l2 substrate recognition in the Lin28-let-7 pathway. Nature 514: 252–256.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hyman, Scott D., T. Joseph W. Lazio, Namir E. Kassim, Paul S. Ray, Craig B. Markwardt, and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh. 2005. A powerful bursting radio source towards the Galactic Centre. Nature 434: 50–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taber, Douglass F. 2006. Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gerdjikov, V. S., G. Vilasi, and A. B. Yanovski, ed. 2008. Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies: Spectral and Geometric Methods. Vol. 748. Lecture Notes in Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shkubulyani, Olena. 2006. Plato’s Teaching about “Living Creature.” In Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Two: The Human Condition in-the-Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive. Individuation, Self, Person, Self-determination, Freedom, Necessity, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 45–60. Analecta Husserliana. 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 Review of Religious Research.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2017. Organic Molecules Found On Giant Asteroid Ceres – Why That’s Such A Huge Deal. IFLScience. IFLScience. February 24.

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. 2016. Local Media Advertising: FCC Should Take Action to Ensure Television Stations Publicly File Advertising Agreements. GAO-16-349. 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

Watkins, Jasmine J. 2017. Victor Echo Tango (VET) Support Services Inc. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2002. Voice of Calm. New York Times, November 10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Egger 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hoshi and Tanji 2000; Egger 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hoshi and Tanji 2000)
Three or more authors: (Hyman et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Religious Research
Abbreviation	Rev. Relig. Res.
ISSN (print)	0034-673X
ISSN (online)	2211-4866
Scope	Philosophy Religious studies