How to format your references using the Scrinium citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scrinium (SCRI). 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

Chiorescu, I. “Physics. Microwave Cooling of an Artificial Atom.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314, no. 5805 (2006) pp. 1549–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruxin, J., and A. Habinshuti. “Crowd Control in Rwanda.” Nature 474, no. 7353 (2011) pp. 572–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muraoka, T., K. Kinbara, and T. Aida. “Mechanical Twisting of a Guest by a Photoresponsive Host.” Nature 440, no. 7083 (2006) pp. 512–15.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Wu, Y. S., G. L. Yu, R. H. Li, L. R. Song, H. X. Jiang, R. Riding, L. J. Liu, D. Y. Liu, and R. Zhao. “Cyanobacterial Fossils from 252 Ma Old Microbialites and Their Environmental Significance.” Scientific Reports 4 (2014) p. 3820.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, P. The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

Agon, C., M. Andreatta, G. Assayag, E. Amiot, J. Bresson, and J. Mandereau, eds. Mathematics and Computation in Music: Third International Conference, MCM 2011, Paris, France, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings. Vol. 6726. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Daly, K. M. “Health as a Social Media.” Pages 35–51 in The New World of Transitioned Media: Digital Realignment and Industry Transformation. Edited by G. Einav. The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment. Cham, 2015.

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 Scrinium.

Blog post

Andrew, E. “From Science Fiction To Reality: The Dawn Of The Biofabricator.” IFLScience. September 1, 2015. No pages. Cited October 30, 2018. Online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/science-fiction-reality-dawn-biofabricator/.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems That Support Federal Human Services Programs. Washington, DC, February 24, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hong, A. N. “A Diastereomeric Strategy in the Construction of Homochiral Metal-Organic Architectures.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Koniak, S. P., G. M. Cohen, D. A. Dana, and T. Ross. “How Washington Abetted the Bank Job.” New York Times, April 4, 2010.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Scrinium
ISSN (print)	1817-7530
ISSN (online)	1817-7565
Scope	Religious studies