How to format your references using the New Review of Film and Television Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Review of Film and Television Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Downer, J. 2001. “A Tortured Tale of Supply and Demand.” Nature 410 (6829): 624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Della Valle, M., and R. Gilmozzi. 2002. “Rebirth of Novae as Distance Indicators Due to Efficient, Large Telescopes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5571): 1275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmith, Torben, Søren Johansen, and Peter Thejll. 2007. “Comment on ‘A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5846): 1866; author reply 1866.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Giraud, Eric, Joël Fardoux, Nicolas Fourrier, Laure Hannibal, Bernard Genty, Pierre Bouyer, Bernard Dreyfus, and André Verméglio. 2002. “Bacteriophytochrome Controls Photosystem Synthesis in Anoxygenic Bacteria.” Nature 417 (6885): 202–205.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Borchard-Tuch, Claudia, and Michael Groß. 2005. Was Biotronik Alles Kann. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hu, Jun. 2015. Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Network-Induced Phenomena: Recursive Filtering and Sliding-Mode Design. Edited by Zidong Wang and Huijun Gao. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, Ha-Kyung Jennifer, Young-Mi Yun, Kee-Hyung Yoon, and Dong-Sub Cho. 2014. “Design of Automatic Paper Identification System with QR Code for Digital Forensics.” In Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing: MUSIC 2013, edited by James J. (jong Hyuk) Park, Hojjat Adeli, Namje Park, and Isaac Woungang, 25–30. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Ivy League Academic Removed From Plane And Questioned After Passenger Spotted His Equations.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/economist-gets-interrogated-writing-equations-airplane/.

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. 1994. Overhead Costs: Unallowable Costs Charged by Rockwell Corporation, Rocketdyne Division. NSIAD-95-41. 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

Desam, Jayasimha Reddy. 2017. “Effective Nodal Placement in Overlay Networks Using Complexity Theory.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Hu, Winnie. 2016. “Taking Aim at Sidewalk Scaffolding, That Unwanted Neighbor.” New York Times, December 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Downer 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Downer 2001; Della Valle and Gilmozzi 2002).

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

Two authors: (Della Valle and Gilmozzi 2002)
Three authors: (Schmith, Johansen, and Thejll 2007)
4 or more authors: (Giraud et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Review of Film and Television Studies
ISSN (print)	1740-0309
ISSN (online)	1740-7923
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication