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PAL Research Guide

Periodicals

**Abbreviate all months, except May, June and July. Do NOT give volume and issue numbers even if you have them.
Online Journal Article from a database

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages. Database, URL.
Worthen, W.B. "Passing Theatre." Theatre Journal, vol. 75, no. 4, 2023, pp. 445-454. ProQuest, https://go.openathens.net/redirector/roosevelt.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/passing-theatre/docview/3020699815/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2023.a922215.

Online Article 

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, URL.

Arora, Sukhesh. "Being, non-being and the in-between." Scenario, vol. 18, no. 1, 2024, https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.18.1.1

Print Article

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.
Watkins, Holly. “Toward a Post-Humanist Organicism.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017, pp. 93–114. 

**Abbreviate all months, except May, June and July. Do NOT give volume and issue numbers even if you have them.

With No Season, Volume Number, or Issue Number

Magazine Article with Author

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine, Day Month Year, pages OR URL.
Kuksa, Iryna. “The Set-Spectrum Project: Scenographic Reconstruction and Theatre Education.” TD&T: Theatre Design & Technology, Oct. 2008, pp. 49–57.

Magazine Article without Author

"Title of Article." Title of Magazine, Day Month Year, pages OR URL.

“Why are The Economist’s Writers Anonymous?” The Economist, 4 Sept. 2013, www.economist.com/blogs/economistexplains/2013/09/economistexplains-itself-1.

With Season, Volume Number, and Issue Number

Author Last, Author First. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine, vol., issue no., season or month year, URL or pages.

Marius, Marley. "The Wizard." Vogue, vol. 214, no. 9, Nov. 2024, https://archive.vogue.com/article/2024/11/01/the-wizard.

Newspaper Article Online (When page numbers are not provided) -- Use a DOI if you can find one.

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Newspaper Title, Other Contributors (translators or editors if any), Ed., Vol. #, No. #, Publisher if needed to specify, XX Mon. XXXX, URL/DOI/Permalink if provided.
Kourlas, Gia. "Four Promoted to Principal Dancers at New York City Ballet." New York Times, 01 Mar. 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/arts/dance/four-dancers-promoted-at-new-york-city-ballet.html.

Newspaper Article print

Author Last, Author First. "Title." Publishing Entity [City included if lesser known newspaper], XX Mon. XXXX, p. #.

Savage, David G. “Redistricting Push Puts a Lot on Line.” Sun-Sentinel [Fort Lauderdale], 14 Aug. 2011, p. 3A.

With Author and Title

Review Author. "Title of Review (if there is one)." Review of Performance Title, by Author/Director/Artist. Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, page or URL or DOI(If online).

Jones, Chris. "Review:'Hadestown' arrives in Chicago, telling a dark and potent story set in hell." Review of Hadestown, by Anaïs Mitchell. Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022, https://go.openathens.net/redirector/roosevelt.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/blogs-podcasts-websites/review-hadestown-arrives-chicago-telling-dark/docview/2635287010/se-2?accountid=28518.

With Author and No Title  

Review Author. Review of Performance Title, by Author/Director/Artist. Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, page or URL or DOI(If online).

Doe, Jane. Review of Play, by John Doe. Good News, 12 Dec. 2024, p. A5.

Without author and Title

"Title of Review (if there is one)." Review of Performance Title, by Author/Director/Artist. Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, page or URL or DOI(If online).

"This Play was Great." Review of Play, by Jane Doe. Good News, 12 Dec. 2024, p. A3.  

Untitled and no author

Review of Performance Title, by Author/Director/Artist. Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, page or URL or DOI(If online).

Review of Play, by Jane Doe. Good News, 12 Dec. 2024, https://www.goodnews-reviewsoftheatre.com.