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

Brown, G. C. “Cell Biology. NO Says Yes to Mitochondria.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5608 (2003) pp. 838–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cochella, L., and R. Green. “An Active Role for TRNA in Decoding beyond Codon:Anticodon Pairing.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308, no. 5725 (2005) pp. 1178–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hermans, T. M., H. Frauenrath, and F. Stellacci. “Materials Science. Droplets out of Equilibrium.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341, no. 6143 (2013) pp. 243–44.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Luo, S. X., J. Huang, Q. Li, H. Mohammad, C.-Y. Lee, K. Krishna, A. M.-Y. Kok, Y. L. Tan, J. Y. Lim, et al. “Regulation of Feeding by Somatostatin Neurons in the Tuberal Nucleus.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 361, no. 6397 (2018) pp. 76–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morton, A., K. Mengersen, M. Whitby, and G. Playford. Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R. Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

Flüchter, A., and S. Richter, eds. Structures on the Move: Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, H., R. Pass, K. Seth, and S. Telang. “Output-Compressing Randomized Encodings and Applications.” Pages 96–124 in Theory of Cryptography: 13th International Conference, TCC 2016-A, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 10-13, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Edited by E. Kushilevitz and T. Malkin. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016.

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

Andrew, D. “What Your Brain Structure Says About Your Personality.” IFLScience. January 26, 2017. No pages. Cited October 30, 2018. Online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-your-brain-structure-says-about-your-personality/.

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. VA/DOD Federal Health Care Center: Costly Information Technology Delays Continue and Evaluation Plan Lacking. Washington, DC, June 26, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ruiz-Resto, J. V. “The Effects of Technical and Imagery-Based Instruction on Aspiring Performing Artists’ Acquisition of Learning Newly Composed Pieces and Improvisation and on Listeners’ Perceived Expressivity.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL, 2016.

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

Saslow, L. “For Roosevelt Schools, New Year and New Woes.” New York Times, September 17, 2006.

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