How to format your references using the Religion in the Roman Empire citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE). 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

Odling-Smee, Lucy 2007. ‘Biofuels Bandwagon Hits a Rut’, Nature 446. 483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Armatas, Gerasimos S.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G. 2006. ‘Hexagonal Mesoporous Germanium’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 313. 817–820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, W.; Birk, F. T.; Davidović, D. 2013. ‘Effects of Confinement and Electron Transport on Magnetic Switching in Single Co Nanoparticles’, Scientific Reports 3. 1200.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kennedy, Martin; Droser, Mary; Mayer, Lawrence M.; Pevear, David; Mrofka, David 2006. ‘Late Precambrian Oxygenation; Inception of the Clay Mineral Factory’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 311. 1446–1449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn, Annerose; Behle, Bernhard; Lischewski, Dieter; Rein, Wolfgang 2002. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Vinks, Alexander A.; Derendorf, Hartmut; Mouton, Johan W. (eds.) 2014. Fundamentals of Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cremaschi, Mauro; Zerboni, Andrea 2011. ‘Human Communities in a Drying Landscape: Holocene Climate Change and Cultural Response in the Central Sahara’. In Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases, ed. I. Peter Martini, Ward Chesworth. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Religion in the Roman Empire.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen 2016. ‘2015’s Recording-Breaking Temperatures Will Be “New Normal” Very Soon’, IFLScience.

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 1995. ‘General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments’, 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

Barrie, Daniel Bennett 2010. ‘On the Interaction of Wind Energy with Climate and Weather’, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Vlasic, Bill 2015. ‘Autoworkers’ Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Fiat Chrysler’, .

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Religion in the Roman Empire
ISSN (print)	2199-4463
ISSN (online)	2199-4471
Scope