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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Vilenkin, Alexander. 2006. Astronomy. The vacuum energy crisis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1148–1149.

A journal article with 2 authors

Navarro, Arcadi, and Nick H. Barton. 2003. Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence--accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 321–324.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grenier, Isabelle A., Jean-Marc Casandjian, and Régis Terrier. 2005. Unveiling extensive clouds of dark gas in the solar neighborhood. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 1292–1295.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Periana, Roy A., Oleg Mironov, Doug Taube, Gaurav Bhalla, and C. J. Jones. 2003. Catalytic, oxidative condensation of CH4 to CH3COOH in one step via CH activation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301: 814–818.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Derbyshire, Emma. 2011. Nutrition in the Childbearing Years. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gervasi, Osvaldo, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Ana Maria A. C. Rocha, Carmelo M. Torre, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan, Elena Stankova, and Shangguang Wang, ed. 2016. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016: 16th International Conference, Beijing, China, July 4-7, 2016, Proceedings, Part IV. Vol. 9789. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gao, Wen, and Siwei Ma. 2014. Transform and Quantization. In Advanced Video Coding Systems, ed. Siwei Ma, 79–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Hale, Tom. 2016. First-Ever Footage Of A Great White Shark Napping Caught On Camera. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 29.

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. 1990. Air Force ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. IMTEC-90-35FS. 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

Davidson, Adina O. 2009. Observing action research processes in practice. Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Quain, John R. 2017. The Light-Sensing Technology Carmakers Are Clamoring For. New York Times, May 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vilenkin 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Navarro and Barton 2003; Vilenkin 2006).

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

Two authors: (Navarro and Barton 2003)
Three or more authors: (Periana et al. 2003)

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