How to format your references using the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal for Philosophy of 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

Smetacek, Victor. 2002. “Microbial Food Webs. The Ocean’s Veil”. Nature 419, no. 6907: 565.

A journal article with 2 authors

Culjkovic-Kraljacic, Bijana, and Katherine L. B. Borden. 2010. “Cell Biology. Puzzled by PML”. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330, no. 6008: 1183–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villar, Gabriel, Alexander D. Graham, and Hagan Bayley. 2013. “A Tissue-like Printed Material”. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340, no. 6128: 48–52.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Beall, Eileen L., J. Robert Manak, Sharleen Zhou, Maren Bell, Joseph S. Lipsick, and Michael R. Botchan. 2002. “Role for a Drosophila Myb-Containing Protein Complex in Site-Specific DNA Replication”. Nature 420, no. 6917: 833–37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vegh, Aaron. 2010. Web Development with the Mac®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

León, Raúl, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, and Jose M. Moneva, eds. 2016. Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management: International Conference, MS 2016, Teruel, Spain, July 4-5, 2016, ProceedingsVol. 254. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Miele, Frank R. 2013. “Principles of Vascular Ultrasound Physics”. In Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy, edited by Ali F. AbuRahma and Dennis F. Bandyk, 29–43. London: 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 European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “The Winners Of The 2016 Underwater Photography Competition Are Absolutely Amazing”. IFLScience. IFLScience. Last modified January 15, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-winners-of-the-2016-underwater-photography-competition-are-absolutely-amazing/.

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. 1985. “Information on the Energy Information Administration’s Financial Reporting System”. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. RCED-85-51.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hertzman, Rachel. 2013. “Yemen’s Migrant Networks as Critical Factor in Political Opposition to the Imamate”. Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Tavernise, Sabrina. 2015. “Russian Tourists Gain Appreciation for the Motherland”. New York Times, August 30, 2015.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
ISSN (print)	1689-8311
Scope