How to format your references using the Culture and Religion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Culture and Religion. 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

Harte, John. 2008. “An Ecologist Notes That Important Details Are Missing from Climate-Change Models.” Nature 454 (7208): 1033.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coe, Fredric L., and John R. Asplin. 2010. “Medicine. Stopping the Stones.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6002): 325–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmawardhana, C. C., A. Misra, and Wai-Yim Ching. 2014. “Quantum Mechanical Metric for Internal Cohesion in Cement Crystals.” Scientific Reports 4 (December 2014): 7332.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Escrig, S., F. Capmas, B. Dupré, and C. J. Allègre. 2004. “Osmium Isotopic Constraints on the Nature of the DUPAL Anomaly from Indian Mid-Ocean-Ridge Basalts.” Nature 431 (7004): 59–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaud, Thomas. 2017. Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hehenberger, Peter, and David Bradley, eds. 2016. Mechatronic Futures: Challenges and Solutions for Mechatronic Systems and Their Designers. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lepperdinger, Günter. 2016. “Ageing of the Stem Cells: The Conjoined Twosome Growing Old: Stem Cell and Its Niche.” In Cellular Ageing and Replicative Senescence, edited by Suresh I. S. Rattan and Leonard Hayflick, 71–83. Healthy Ageing and Longevity. 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 Culture and Religion.

Blog post

Evans, Katy. 2017. “World’s First Ice Archive To ‘Preserve Glacier Memory’ For Future Generations To Study.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 23. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-first-ice-archive-to-preserve-glacier-memory-for-future-generations-to-study/.

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. 1998. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard--Model Year 2000. OGC-98-42. 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

Kim, Christopher S. 2017. “Electronic Transport of Thin Crystals in Ruthenium Chloride.” 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

Poniewozik, James. 2017. “Deadly, Stylish Comfort.” New York Times, April 18, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harte 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Harte 2008; Coe and Asplin 2010).

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

Two authors: (Coe and Asplin 2010)
Three authors: (Dharmawardhana, Misra, and Ching 2014)
4 or more authors: (Escrig et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Culture and Religion
Abbreviation	Cult. Relig.
ISSN (print)	1475-5610
ISSN (online)	1475-5629
Scope	Philosophy Religious studies Cultural Studies