How to format your references using the Scrinium citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scrinium (SCRI). 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

Liu, R. C. “Sensory Systems: The Yin and Yang of Cortical Oxytocin.” Nature 520, no. 7548 (2015) pp. 444–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clutton-Brock, T., and B. C. Sheldon. “Ecology. The Seven Ages of Pan.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327, no. 5970 (2010) pp. 1207–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alonso, S., F. Sagués, and A. S. Mikhailov. “Taming Winfree Turbulence of Scroll Waves in Excitable Media.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5613 (2003) pp. 1722–25.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Hafez, I. H., M. R. Berber, T. Fujigaya, and N. Nakashima. “Enhancement of Platinum Mass Activity on the Surface of Polymer-Wrapped Carbon Nanotube-Based Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts.” Scientific Reports 4 (2014) p. 6295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salam, A. Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics. Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

Papavassiliou, S., and S. Ruehrup, eds. Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: 14th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2015, Athens, Greece, June 29 -- July 1, 2015, Proceedings. Vol. 9143. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, S.-M., F. Chiclana, R. I. John, and J. M. Garibaldi. “Fuzzification of the OWA Operators for Aggregating Uncertain Information with Uncertain Weights.” Pages 91–109 in Recent Developments in the Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators: Theory and Practice. Edited by R. R. Yager, J. Kacprzyk, and G. Beliakov. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

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 Scrinium.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. “Old Mice Drinking Champagne Three Times A Week Navigate Labyrinths Better.” IFLScience. November 9, 2015. No pages. Cited October 30, 2018. Online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/old-mice-drinking-champagne-three-times-week-navigate-labyrinths-better/.

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. Developing a Domestic Common Carrier Telecommunications Policy: What Are the Issues? Washington, DC, January 24, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mac Garrigle, E. F. “A Validation of the Enterprise Management Engineering Approach to Knowledge Management Systems Engineering.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC, 2006.

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

Wasik, J. F. “Accelerators Lend Help to a Business Idea Trying to Catch Fire.” New York Times, October 13, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Scrinium
ISSN (print)	1817-7530
ISSN (online)	1817-7565
Scope	Religious studies