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 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

Laursen, Lucas. 2015. “Botany: The Cultivation of Weed.” Nature 525 (7570): S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheppard, Scott S., and David C. Jewitt. 2003. “An Abundant Population of Small Irregular Satellites around Jupiter.” Nature 423 (6937): 261–263.

A journal article with 3 authors

Worthylake, D. K., K. L. Rossman, and J. Sondek. 2000. “Crystal Structure of Rac1 in Complex with the Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Region of Tiam1.” Nature 408 (6813): 682–688.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Islam, Salim T., Steven M. Huszczynski, Timothy Nugent, Alexander C. Gold, and Joseph S. Lam. 2013. “Conserved-Residue Mutations in Wzy Affect O-Antigen Polymerization and Wzz-Mediated Chain-Length Regulation in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa PAO1.” Scientific Reports 3 (December): 3441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edmonds, Michael E., Alethea V. M. Foster, and Lee J. Sanders. 2008. A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Daniels, James, and M. Rebecca Hoffman, eds. 2011. Common Musculoskeletal Problems: A Handbook. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zheng, Hongwei, and Guowei Yang. 2012. “Investigation of Aerodynamic Performance of High-Speed Train by Detached Eddy Simulation.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High-Speed and Intercity Railways: Volume 2, edited by Yi-Qing Ni and Xiao-Wei Ye, 31–39. 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 Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “These Weird Videos Could Prove That Apes Have ‘Theory Of Mind.’” 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. 1979. Army’s FY 1980 Programs for Procuring Conventional Ammunition, Modernization, and Expansion. LCD-79-416. 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

Dandavate, Rohini. 2006. “Building Cultural Understanding Through Cultural Exchange.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Lee, Linda. 2008. “Anarchy? No, It’s Art.” New York Times, December 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laursen 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Laursen 2015; Sheppard and Jewitt 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sheppard and Jewitt 2003)
Three authors: (Worthylake, Rossman, and Sondek 2000)
4 or more authors: (Islam 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