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

von Bergmann, K. (2015), 'Physics. Magnetic bubbles with a twist', Science (New York, N.Y.), 349:6245, pp. 234–235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, D. E. and Rymer, M. J. (2007), 'Talc-bearing serpentinite and the creeping section of the San Andreas fault', Nature, 448:7155, pp. 795–797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhode, S. C., Pawlowski, M. and Tollrian, R. (2001), 'The impact of ultraviolet radiation on the vertical distribution of zooplankton of the genus Daphnia', Nature, 412:6842, pp. 69–72.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ju, B. G., Jeong, S., Bae, E., Hyun, S., Carroll, S. B., Yim, J. and Kim, J. (2000), 'Fringe forms a complex with Notch', Nature, 405:6783, pp. 191–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cyr, K. S. (2010), Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administration, Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Kollmitzer, C. and Pivk, M. (Eds.) (2010), Applied Quantum Cryptography, Vol. 797, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Frisch, W., Meschede, M. and Blakey, R. (2011), 'Mid-ocean ridges', in M. Meschede, and R. C. Blakey, (Eds.), Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building, pp. 59–74, Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Fang, J. (2016, June 1), 'Tiny Vibrating Hairs Help Bees Sense Electrical Signals Sent From Flowers',

retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-vibrating-hairs-help-bees-sense-electrical-signals-sent-flowers/

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 (2000), Maintaining Effective Control Over Employee Time and Attendance Reporting, No. GAO-01-186G, 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

Gaudet, C. J. (2013), A General Approach to the Direct Detection of Dark Matter, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

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

Neuman, W. (2014, May 2), 'At Least 3 Die in Collapse of Gold Mine', New York Times, p. A11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Bergmann 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Rymer 2007; von Bergmann 2015).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Rymer 2007)
Three authors: (Rhode, Pawlowski, and Tollrian 2001)
6 or more authors: (Ju et al. 2000)

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