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

Parman, S. W. 2007. Helium isotopic evidence for episodic mantle melting and crustal growth. Nature 446: 900–903.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayer, Ronald, and James Colgrove. 2002. Public health vs. civil liberties. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kavanagh, Kathryn D., Alistair R. Evans, and Jukka Jernvall. 2007. Predicting evolutionary patterns of mammalian teeth from development. Nature 449: 427–432.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wilf, Peter, Conrad C. Labandeira, Kirk R. Johnson, and Beth Ellis. 2006. Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 1112–1115.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, Charles Austin, and Anne Zissu. 2012. The Securitization Markets Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Acuña, Silvia Teresita. 2005. A Software Process Model Handbook for Incorporating People’s Capabilities. Edited by Natalia Juristo, Ana María Moreno, and Alicia Mon. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Han, I., and Sheng-Tsung Hou. 2016. Taiwan Taxi Company. In Social Innovation and Business in Taiwan, ed. Sheng-Tsung Hou, 37–55. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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

Fang, Janet. 2014. Europa’s Giant Geysers Disappear. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 5.

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. 1977. Concerted Effort Needed to Improve Indian Education. CED-77-24. 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

Ugwu, Romanus Iroabuchi. 2012. Perceptions of elementary teachers from an urban school district in Southern California regarding their inquiry-based science instructional practices, assessment methods, and professional development. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Gustines, George Gene. 2011. Along the Heated Trail of the Man Who Created Muslim Superheroes. New York Times, October 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bayer and Colgrove 2002; Parman 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bayer and Colgrove 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wilf et al. 2006)

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