Below are examples of reputable and scholarly online theology and religious studies journals ZSR subscribes to.  There are almost 1000 more!  Find them by searching on the journal page.

Use the journals tab on the library homepage to search for a journal title to if we have a subscription and what our access or availability is. Do not search for the title of an article here, but the title of the journal it is published in. 

For example, say you wanted to find this article cited in a bibliography:

The highlighted information is what you need to find the article from the journals page:

• JR is the title of the journal, Journal of Religion (see a list of journal abbreviations here) 
• 81 is the volume of the journal
• 2001 is the year of publication
• 26-48 is the page range of the article

If you search for Journal of Religion you will see links to four options for access:

1. 01/01/1921 to six years ago in JSTOR: we generally have online access to a journal through JSTOR from the first issue until about 4-8 years ago
2. 07/01/1990 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier: we have access through an agreement with another provider
3. 1921-1926 and 2004 to present in University of Chicago Press Journals: we have access through the publisher's website both to back issues and the most recent issues of the journal
4. Z. Smith Reynolds Library Print Holdings: this will list the print issues we received of the journal and will give you the call number and location where they are shelved.  This may be in our Main Stacks (with the regular books), or, as in this case, in our off-site storage facility, where volumes 85-86 (2005-2006) are housed.  If you need a particular volume from off-site storage to be delivered to the library, there will be a link to request that volume, and it will usually be delivered in less than 24 hours.  You can also request that an individual article be scanned and delivered via email.

When you click on one of the links above, JSTOR, for example, you will go to the "homepage" for the journal.  You will see information about the publisher, frequency of publication, and a list of years or volumes available online.  In this case, you would navigate to the appropriate date range (2000s), scroll to "2001, (Vol. 81)", and select the correct issue based upon the page numbers of the article (No. 1, Jan., 2001, pp.1-184).  Then the table of contents for that issue will be displayed and you can locate your article.

Each journal has a "house style" for citations in the articles they publish, and each database has their own way of displaying journal information.  Though the elements of a citation may be in a slightly different order or have different punctuation, all citations should include the journal title, the volume number, the date of publication, and the page range of the article.  If you make sure to collect this information, you should be able to locate the article you are looking for.

This Theological Journals Search searches several hundred open-access (free) online journals.  Learn more about it and see a title list of the journals included here.