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

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

Gould, J. (2014). Gene therapy: Genie in a vector. Nature, 515(7528), S160-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carmeliet, P., & Tessier-Lavigne, M. (2005). Common mechanisms of nerve and blood vessel wiring. Nature, 436(7048), 193–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chih, B., Engelman, H., & Scheiffele, P. (2005). Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5713), 1324–1328.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mei, F., Zhang, S., Tang, N., Duan, J., Xu, F., Chen, Y., et al. (2014). Spin transport study in a Rashba spin-orbit coupling system. Scientific reports, 4, 4030.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss, A. (2009). Getting Started in Consulting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gelbukh, A. (Ed.). (2012). Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 13th International Conference, CICLing 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 7181). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jensen, J. J. (2012). Probability of Parametric Roll in Random Seaways. In T. I. Fossen & H. Nijmeijer (Eds.), Parametric Resonance in Dynamical Systems (pp. 91–105). New York, NY: 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 Religious Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, October 28). A 1.8 million year old skull indicates there may have been just one human species on Earth at that time. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/18-million-year-old-skull-indicates-there-may-have-been-just-one-human-species/. 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. (2001). Public Assistance: PARIS Project Can Help States Reduce Improper Benefit Payments (No. GAO-01-935). 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

Avila, B. (2013). Comparison of paternal and maternal involvement in a government funded home-based intervention program: A multivariate analysis of parent gender, child gender and age of the child (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Marx, L. (2010, June 6). Michelle McGann and Jonathan Satter. New York Times, p. ST10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gould 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Carmeliet and Tessier-Lavigne 2005; Gould 2014).

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

Two authors: (Carmeliet and Tessier-Lavigne 2005)
Three or more authors: (Mei et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Religious Education
Abbreviation	J. Relig. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1442-018X
ISSN (online)	2199-4625
Scope