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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Music Technology and Education (JMTE). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kerr, R. A. (2000), 'GREENHOUSE WARMING: Dueling Models: Future U.S. Climate Uncertain', Science (New York, N.Y.), 288:5474, pp. 2113.

A journal article with 2 authors

Page, J. and Ware, M. (2015), 'Perspective: Close the knowledge gap', Nature, 525:7570, pp. S9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Unal, E., Kinde, B. and Amon, A. (2011), 'Gametogenesis eliminates age-induced cellular damage and resets life span in yeast', Science (New York, N.Y.), 332:6037, pp. 1554–1557.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schrinner, M., Ballauff, M., Talmon, Y., Kauffmann, Y., Thun, J., Möller, M. and Breu, J. (2009), 'Single nanocrystals of platinum prepared by partial dissolution of Au-Pt nanoalloys', Science (New York, N.Y.), 323:5914, pp. 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper, N., Forrest, K. and Cramp, P. (2008), Essential Guide to Generic Skills, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Shaw, R. and Izumi, T. (Eds.) (2014), Civil Society Organization and Disaster Risk Reduction: The Asian Dilemma, Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Pearson, C. E., Weinstein, R. A., Gagliano, S. M. and Kelley, D. B. (2014), 'Prehistoric Site Discovery on the Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, United States of America', in A. M. Evans, , J. C. Flatman, , and N. C. Flemming, (Eds.), Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf: A Global Review, pp. 53–72, New York, NY: 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 Journal of Music Technology and Education.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, July 8), 'Please Stop Electrocuting Your Brains At Home, Say Neuroscientists',

retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/please-stop-electrocuting-your-brains-at-home-say-neuroscientists/

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 (1978), Standard Definitions: Missing and Needed Software Tools, No. 091116, 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

Oteng, Y. (2001), Enquête sur la Pluralité Culturelle: Identité et Marginalisation dans le Roman Francophone Colonial et Postcolonial (Chraïbi, Kane, Kourouma, Boudjedra, Ben Jelloun), Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

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

Wagner, J. (2017, July 21), 'Ties to Miami and to Cuba Run Deep in Marlins Bidder', New York Times, p. D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr 2000; Page and Ware 2015).

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

Two authors: (Page and Ware 2015)
Three authors: (Unal, Kinde, and Amon 2011)
6 or more authors: (Schrinner et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Music Technology and Education
Abbreviation	J. Music Technol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1752-7066
ISSN (online)	1752-7074
Scope	Music Computer Science Applications Education