How to format your references using the British Journal of Religious Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Religious Education. 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	Download the output style file
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

Vane, John R. 2002. “Biomedicine. Back to an Aspirin a Day?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5567): 474–475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guenther, Matthew G., and Richard A. Young. 2010. “Transcription. Repressive Transcription.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5988): 150–151.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, Ross N., Taylor M. Kilian, and David A. D. Evans. 2012. “Supercontinent Cycles and the Calculation of Absolute Palaeolongitude in Deep Time.” Nature 482 (7384): 208–211.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yoshida, Seiji, Yasuhiro Date, Makiko Akama, and Jun Kikuchi. 2014. “Comparative Metabolomic and Ionomic Approach for Abundant Fishes in Estuarine Environments of Japan.” Scientific Reports 4 (November 2014): 7005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stahl, Saul. 2011. Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maschinski, Joyce, Kristin E. Haskins, and Peter H. Raven, eds. 2012. Plant Reintroduction in a Changing Climate: Promises and Perils. The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

A chapter in an edited book

Protogerakis, Michael, Arno Gramatke, and Klaus Henning. 2009. “A Software Architecture for a Telematic Rescue Assistance System.” In World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/5 Information and Communication in Medicine, Telemedicine and e-Health, edited by Olaf Dössel and Wolfgang C. Schlegel, 17–20. IFMBE Proceedings, Ratko Magjarevic. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 British Journal of Religious Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Number of Measles Cases Linked To Disneyland Continues To Grow.” IFLScience, IFLScience, January 26. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/number-measles-cases-linked-disneyland-continues-grow/.

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. 1999. Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California. OSI-99-8. 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

Nakayama, Mari. 2017. “Educational Advocacy for Children in Foster Care: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Paulson, Michael. 2017. “The Musical ‘The Prom’ Is Coming to Broadway.” New York Times, October 20, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vane 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Vane 2002; Guenther and Young 2010).

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

Two authors: (Guenther and Young 2010)
Three authors: (Mitchell, Kilian, and Evans 2012)
4 or more authors: (Yoshida et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Religious Education
Abbreviation	Br. J. Relig. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0141-6200
ISSN (online)	1740-7931
Scope	Religious studies Education