How to format your references using the Shakespeare citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Shakespeare. 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

Dzenis, Yuris. 2008. “Materials Science. Structural Nanocomposites.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5862): 419–420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galun, Rachel, and Onesmo K. Ole-MoiYoi. 2003. “Obituary: Thomas Risley Odhiambo (1931-2003).” Nature 425 (6954): 142.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyd, Oliver S., Craig H. Jones, and Anne F. Sheehan. 2004. “Foundering Lithosphere Imaged beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5684): 660–662.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Almany, Glenn R., Michael L. Berumen, Simon R. Thorrold, Serge Planes, and Geoffrey P. Jones. 2007. “Local Replenishment of Coral Reef Fish Populations in a Marine Reserve.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5825): 742–744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molino Sr., Louis N. 2006. Emergency Incident Management Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fadare, Oluwole, ed. 2016. Precancerous Lesions of the Gynecologic Tract: Diagnostic and Molecular Genetic Pathology. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bosse, Tibor, and Nataliya M. Mogles. 2014. “An Agent-Based Approach for Accident Analysis in Safety Critical Domains: A Case Study on a Runway Incursion Incident.” In Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XVII, edited by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Ana Fred, and Filipe Joaquim, 66–88. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Shakespeare.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Ancient Temple To God Of Wind Discovered Beneath Mexican Supermarket.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-temple-god-wind-discovered-beneath-mexican-supermarket/.

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. 2014. Spectrum Management: FCC’s Use and Enforcement of Buildout Requirements. GAO-14-236. 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

Cuomo, Anthony Peter. 2013. “SB 48 and Social Media: Constituing an Audience for and against California’s LGBT Education Legislation.” 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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2017. “Film Series.” New York Times, February 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dzenis 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dzenis 2008; Galun and Ole-MoiYoi 2003).

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

Two authors: (Galun and Ole-MoiYoi 2003)
Three authors: (Boyd, Jones, and Sheehan 2004)
4 or more authors: (Almany et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Shakespeare
ISSN (print)	1745-0918
ISSN (online)	1745-0926
Scope	Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts