How to format your references using the Modern Language Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Modern Language Review. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Bruneau, Benoit G., ‘The Developmental Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease’, Nature, 451.7181 (2008), pp. 943–48

A journal article with 2 authors

Simakov, David S. A., and Juan Pérez-Mercader, ‘Noise Induced Oscillations and Coherence Resonance in a Generic Model of the Nonisothermal Chemical Oscillator’, Scientific Reports, 3 (2013), p. 2404

A journal article with 3 authors

Villar, Gabriel, Alexander D. Graham, and Hagan Bayley, ‘A Tissue-like Printed Material’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 340.6128 (2013), pp. 48–52

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Min, Junhong, Cédric Vonesch, Hagai Kirshner, Lina Carlini, Nicolas Olivier, Seamus Holden, and others, ‘FALCON: Fast and Unbiased Reconstruction of High-Density Super-Resolution Microscopy Data’, Scientific Reports, 4 (2014), p. 4577

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minns, Peter, and Ian Elliott, FSM-Based Digital Design Using Verilog HDL (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2008)

An edited book

Marbach-Ad, Gili, A Discipline-Based Teaching and Learning Center: A Model for Professional Development, ed. by Laura C. Egan and Katerina V. Thompson (Springer International Publishing, 2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Costamagna, Juan A., Mauricio Isaacs, María J. Aguirre, Galo Ramírez, and Ignacio Azocar, ‘Electroreduction of CO2 Catalyzed by Metallomacrocyclics’, in N4-Macrocyclic Metal Complexes, ed. by José H. Zagal, Fethi Bedioui, and Jean-Pol Dodelet (Springer, 2006), pp. 191–254

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 Modern Language Review.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen, ‘Copper Can Destroy Respiratory Viruses’, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2015)

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, Domestic Aviation: Service Problems and Limited Competition Continue in Some Markets (U.S. Government Printing Office, 23 April 1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shibata, Cameron L., ‘Building Positive Body Image in Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of a Body Image Prevention Program’ (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

Bidgood, Jess, and John Schwartz, ‘Hurricane Nate Hits Gulf Coast Region Still Recovering From Katrina’, New York Times, 7 October 2017, p. A18

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Modern Language Review
ISSN (print)	0026-7937
ISSN (online)	2222-4319
Scope	Language and Linguistics Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language