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Music Theatre Research Guide

This guide provides resources for Music Theatre

Citation style guides for Music Theatre

The most often used citation styles for the Theatre Arts are MLA Handbook for Writers and the Chicago Manual of Style, both of which are located at the library service desk. For more assistance, please consult a librarian or your professor.

Two good resources are:

ZoteroBib: the quickest way to build an accurate bib

Zotero now has a quick and accurate tool to create a bibliography entry!

  • go to https://zbib.org/
  • enter a URL (website), ISBN (book), DOI (online article), PMID (PubMed), arXiv ID (author), or title
  • click on the Cite button
  • select a Bibliography style
  • copy to clipboard to paste into your document
  • formatted citations are stored in your browser until you delete them

Reading & writing about Music Theatre

Zotero Citation Manager

The zotero Citation Manager is a free, easy to use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Follow these steps to start building your own Zotero Library:

Writing Center

The Writing Center offers online, real-time appointments. Students can make appointments as usual via http://elon.mywconline.com and meet with a consultant via video and text chat. Appointments will be available during the usual hours and all appointments will be scheduled for eastern standard time. For more information: https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/writing-excellence/the-writing-center/.

Elon's Writing Center will help you understand an assignment, as well as brainstorm, draft, revise, edit & document sources.