How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematics and Music citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematics and Music. 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

[1]

Vastag B. Assembly work. Nature. 2008;453:422–423.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Eisen JA, Fraser CM. Phylogenomics: intersection of evolution and genomics. Science. 2003;300:1706–1707.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Leitch DB, Sarko DK, Catania KC. Brain mass and cranial nerve size in shrews and moles. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6241.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Busino L, Bassermann F, Maiolica A, et al. SCFFbxl3 controls the oscillation of the circadian clock by directing the degradation of cryptochrome proteins. Science. 2007;316:900–904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rahman ROA, Rakhimov RZ, Rakhimova NR, et al. Cementitious Materials for Nuclear Waste Immobilization. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Ramos JG, Daly T, editors. Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yehezkel C, Haberman B. Bridging the Gap Between School Computing and the “Real World.” In: Mittermeir RT, editor. Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers: International Conference in Informatics in Secondary Schools – Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 7-11, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 38–47.

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 Journal of Mathematics and Music.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. British Embarrassment Is Contributing To The Mountains Of Plastic Waste [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/british-embarrassment-is-contributing-to-the-mountains-of-plastic-waste/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Progress Made, but Challenges Persist in Meeting the Screening Mandate for Air Cargo. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011. Report No.: GAO-11-413T. .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bonin C. Spatial and temporal characteristics of electromagnetic activity in the brain prior to reaches to visual targets [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

[1]

Poniewozik J. A Debate? Or Rivals Just Trying to Go Viral? New York Times. 2016 Oct 10;A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematics and Music
Abbreviation	J. Math. Music
ISSN (print)	1745-9737
ISSN (online)	1745-9745
Scope	Music Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Modelling and Simulation

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