How to format your references using the Journal of Religion and Health citation style

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

McNutt, M. (2013). Climate change impacts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6145), 435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeates, T. O., & Clubb, R. T. (2007). Biochemistry. How some pili pull. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5856), 1558–1559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin, D. M., Hoffman, D. S., & Strick, P. L. (2015). Corticomotoneuronal cells are “functionally tuned.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6261), 667–670.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nikolaev, A., McLaughlin, T., O’Leary, D. D. M., & Tessier-Lavigne, M. (2009). APP binds DR6 to trigger axon pruning and neuron death via distinct caspases. Nature, 457(7232), 981–989.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ansorge, R. (2005). Mathematical Models of Fluiddynamics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kutikhin, A. G. (2013). Genomics of Pattern Recognition Receptors: Applications in Oncology and Cardiovascular Diseases. (A. E. Yuzhalin, Ed.). Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kloss, G. K., & Schreiber, A. (2006). Provenance Implementation in a Scientific Simulation Environment. In L. Moreau & I. Foster (Eds.), Provenance and Annotation of Data: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 37–45). 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 Journal of Religion and Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 15). Captive Chimpanzees To Be Classified As Endangered. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1992). Organizational Culture: Techniques Companies Use to Perpetuate or Change Beliefs and Values (No. NSIAD-92-105). 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

Prasad, A. B. (2010). Analyzing comparative sequence data to understand genome function and evolution (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Neuman, W. (2014, December 4). Colombia and Rebels Agree to Talks. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNutt 2013).
This sentence cites two references (McNutt 2013; Yeates and Clubb 2007).

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

Two authors: (Yeates and Clubb 2007)
Three or more authors: (Nikolaev et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Religion and Health
Abbreviation	J. Relig. Health
ISSN (print)	0022-4197
ISSN (online)	1573-6571
Scope	Religious studies General Medicine General Nursing