How to format your references using the Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 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

Burrows, Jeremy. 2015. “Microbiology: Malaria Runs Rings Round Artemisinin.” Nature 520 (7549): 628–630.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neronov, Andrii, and Ievgen Vovk. 2010. “Evidence for Strong Extragalactic Magnetic Fields from Fermi Observations of TeV Blazars.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5974): 73–75.

A journal article with 3 authors

Agrawal, Tanvi, Peter Schu, and Guruprasad R. Medigeshi. 2013. “Adaptor Protein Complexes-1 and 3 Are Involved at Distinct Stages of Flavivirus Life-Cycle.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1813.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yu, Jin-Tao, Yan-Yan Shi, Junliang Sun, Jianhua Lin, Zhi-Tang Huang, and Qi-Yu Zheng. 2013. “Spontaneous Chiral Resolution Directed by Symmetry Restriction and π-π Interaction.” Scientific Reports 3 (October 2013): 2947.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, Don. 2009. Trump University Marketing 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Iliadis, Lazaros, and Chrisina Jayne, eds. 2011. Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 12th INNS EANN-SIG International Conference, EANN 2011 and 7th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference, AIAI 2011, Corfu, Greece, September 15-18, 2011, Proceedings Part I. Vol. 363. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lands, William E. 2008. “Tissue Omega-6 and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Health and Disease.” In Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept, edited by Fabien De Meester and Ronald Ross Watson, 51–53. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Two Ancient Maya Cities Unearthed In Mexican Jungle.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 20. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/two-ancient-maya-cities-unearthed-mexican-jungle/.

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. Education and Employment Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1995-96. IAP-95-96. 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

Reyes, Jessica. 2009. “Connections: A Grant Proposal for Mothers Struggling with Substance Abuse in the Child Welfare System.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Phillips, Kelly M. 2009. “In Mexico, Outgunned and Underpaid.” New York Times, August 15, 2009.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burrows 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Burrows 2015; Neronov and Vovk 2010).

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

Two authors: (Neronov and Vovk 2010)
Three authors: (Agrawal, Schu, and Medigeshi 2013)
4 or more authors: (Yu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
Abbreviation	Res. Drama Educ.
ISSN (print)	1356-9783
ISSN (online)	1470-112X
Scope	Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts Education