Citing and referencing: Reviews

Print: Reviewer Last Name, First Name. Review of Title, by First Name Last Name. Title of Journal, volume, issue, year, page range of article. 

Electronic: Reviewer Last Name, First Name. Review of Title, by First Name Last Name. Title of Journal, volume, issue, year, page range of article. Database, DOI.

Examples

Kinder, Marsha. Review of High Heels, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Film Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 3, 1992, pp. 39-44.

Jeffers, Alison. Review of Performing Exile, Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film, by Yana Meerzon. Theatre Research International, vol. 38, no. 1, 2013,  pp. 71-72.

Silverman, Gillian. Review of Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, And Revival Of A Disparaged Rhetoric, by Faye Halpern. Legacy, vol. 32, no. 1, 2015, pp. 135-137. JSTOR, doi:10.5250/legacy.32.1.0135.

Ringer, Loren. Review of Et Soudain, des Nuits d'Eveil (and Suddenly, Nights of Awakening), by Ariane Mnouchkine and Hélène Cixous. Theatre Journal, vol. 50, no. 4, 1998, pp. 529-31.

Miller, Henry K. Review of Jeff, Who Lives at Home, written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass. Sight and Sound, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2012, pp. 69-70. ProQuest, proquest.com/magazines/jeff-who-lives-at-home/docview/1017713229/se-2.

Note that if you are citing a review of a live performance the date and venue of the performance should not be included. Remember that you are citing the review and not the performance.

Print: Reviewer Last Name, First Name. "Title of Review (if there is one)." Review of Title, by First Name Last Name. Title of Newspaper, Day Month Year, page range of article.

Electronic: Reviewer Last Name, First Name. "Title of Review (if there is one)." Review of Title, by First Name Last Name. Title of Newspaper, Day Month Year, page range of article. Database, DOI.

Examples

Buruma, Ian. “Fruit From Suffering: The Inner and Outer Worlds of Anne Frank’s Diary.” Review of The Collected Works, edited by Nancy Forest-Flier et al. Times Literary Supplement, 16 Aug. 2018, pp. 3-4.

Maslin, Janet. Review of Emma in the Night, by Wendy Walker. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2017, nyti.ms/2uBhA0C.

Swinn, Louise. "An Uneasy History Eyed with Elegance." Review of The Yield, by Tara June Winch. The Age, 27 July 2019. ProQuest, proquest.com/newspapers/uneasy-history-eyed-with-elegance/docview/2264154670/se-2.

If page numbers are not available, omit that portion of the citation. 

If the review has a title, present this in quotation marks after the name of the reviewer. Omit this element if there is no title.

Reviewer Last Name, First Name. Review of Title, by First Name Last Name. Title of website, publication date, URL.

Examples

Galvin, Peter. Review of Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller. SBS, 2015, www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/mad-max-review.

Marshall, Lee. Review of Sweet Country, directed by Warwick Thornton. Screen Daily, 7 Sep. 2017, www.screendaily.com/reviews/sweet-country-venice-review/5122036.article.

Mackin, Joseph. Review of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, by Alan Jacobs. New York Journal of Books, 2 June 2011, www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/pleasures-reading-age-distraction.

Anderson, Eric Karl. Review of Beast, by Paul Kingsnorth. Lonesome Reader, 6 July 2016, lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/7/6/beast-by-paul-kingsnorth.

Canaway, Jane. Review of Angela's Kitchen, by Paul Capsis. Australian Stage, 5 Sep. 2012, www.australianstage.com.au/201209055759/reviews/melbourne/angela-s-kitchen.html.

If a publication date for the review is published on the website, there is no need to provide an accessed date.

Be aware that a review published on the web may not be considered a scholarly source.