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

Van Kranendonk, Martin J. 2011. “Geochemistry. Onset of Plate Tectonics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6041): 413–414.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kolar, Cynthia S., and David M. Lodge. 2002. “Ecological Predictions and Risk Assessment for Alien Fishes in North America.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5596): 1233–1236.

A journal article with 3 authors

Healy, Laura L., James G. Cronin, and I. Martin Sheldon. 2014. “Endometrial Cells Sense and React to Tissue Damage during Infection of the Bovine Endometrium via Interleukin 1.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 7060.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Helmink, Beth A., Anthony T. Tubbs, Yair Dorsett, Jeffrey J. Bednarski, Laura M. Walker, Zhihui Feng, Girdhar G. Sharma, et al. 2011. “H2AX Prevents CtIP-Mediated DNA End Resection and Aberrant Repair in G1-Phase Lymphocytes.” Nature 469 (7329): 245–249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Habart-Corlosquet, Marine, Jacques Janssen, and Raimondo Manca. 2013. VaR Methodology for Non-Gaussian Finance. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cole, Peter H., and Damith C. Ranasinghe, eds. 2008. Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting. First edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Franco, A., K. Pisarewicz, C. Moller, D. Mora, G. B. Fields, and Frank Marí. 2006. “Hyperhydroxylation: A New Strategy for Neuronal Targeting by Venomous Marine Molluscs.” In Molluscs: From Chemo-Ecological Study to Biotechnological Application, edited by Guido Cimino and Margherita Gavagnin, 83–103. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology. 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “How Deadly Is Your Dog’s Saliva?” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2015. Vehicle Safety Inspections: Improved DOT Communication Could Better Inform State Programs. GAO-15-705. 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

Cornelius, Jennifer. 2017. “Five Minute Meditation Used to Impact Workplace Meetings.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Crane, Agnes T., George Hay, and Peter Thal Larsen. 2011. “Mortgage Market Due for Overhaul.” New York Times, July 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Van Kranendonk 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Van Kranendonk 2011; Kolar and Lodge 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kolar and Lodge 2002)
Three authors: (Healy, Cronin, and Sheldon 2014)
4 or more authors: (Helmink et al. 2011)

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