How to format your references using the Journal of New Music Research citation style

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

Aragón, A. M. (2013). A measure for the impact of research. Scientific Reports, 3, 1649.

A journal article with 2 authors

Premkumar, L. S., & Ahern, G. P. (2000). Induction of vanilloid receptor channel activity by protein kinase C. Nature, 408(6815), 985–990.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard, N. J., Grootes, P. M., & Smith, F. H. (2004). Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature, 430(6996), 198–201.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Deng, X., Zhang, Z., Tang, G., Fan, Z., Zhu, H., & Yang, C. (2014). Edge contact dependent spin transport for n-type doping zigzag-graphene with asymmetric edge hydrogenation. Scientific Reports, 4, 4038.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumacheva, E., & Garstecki, P. (2011). Microfluidic Reactors for Polymer Particles. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kenaan, H., & Ferber, I. (Eds.). (2011). Philosophy’s Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking (Vol. 63). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Haddad, M. R., Baazaoui, H., Aufaure, M. A., Claramunt, C., Lechevallier, Y., & Ghezala, H. B. (2009). Towards an Integration of Space and Accessibility in Web Personalization. In J. D. Carswell, A. S. Fotheringham, & G. McArdle (Eds.), Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, December 7-8, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 39–55). 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 New Music Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, January 18). Light-Operated, Gecko-Like Stickiness Could Make Wall-Climbing Robots. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lightoperated-geckolike-stickiness-could-make-wallclimbing-robots/

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. (1997). Social Security Administration: Internet Access to Personal Earnings and Benefits Information (T-AIMD/HEHS-97-123). 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

Stroud, M. (2012). Solar desalination in the southwest United States: A thermoeconomic analysis utilizing the sun to desalt water in high irradiance regions [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, July 31). Sam Shepard, Whose Plays Forged a New Frontier, Dies at 73. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aragón, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Aragón, 2013; Premkumar & Ahern, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Premkumar & Ahern, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Deng et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of New Music Research
Abbreviation	J. New Music Res.
ISSN (print)	0929-8215
ISSN (online)	1744-5027
Scope	Music Visual Arts and Performing Arts