How to format your references using the Music Theory Spectrum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Music Theory Spectrum. 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

Ward, Michael D. 2003. “Materials Science. Molecular Fuel Tanks.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 1104–1105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Konstantinides, Nikolaos, and Michalis Averof. 2014. “A Common Cellular Basis for Muscle Regeneration in Arthropods and Vertebrates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343: 788–791.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burstein, G. T., I. M. Hutchings, and K. Sasaki. 2000. “Electrochemically Induced Annealing of Stainless-Steel Surfaces.” Nature 407: 885–887.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Shucai, Eryang Li, Ilga Porth, Jin-Gui Chen, Shawn D. Mansfield, and Carl J. Douglas. 2014. “Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis by Poplar R2R3 MYB Transcription Factor PtrMYB152 in Arabidopsis.” Scientific Reports 4: 5054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen, Danielle S. 2012. Why Plato Wrote. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Lutz, Harald T., and Hassen A. Gharbi, eds. 2006. Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound in Infectious Tropical Diseases. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mrozynski, Gerd, and Matthias Stallein. 2013. “Magnetic Field of Stationary Currents.” In Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Collection of Problems. Ed. Matthias Stallein. 99–125. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag.

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 Music Theory Spectrum.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “A Girl Left Her Contacts In For 6 Months And Amoebas Ate Her Eyeballs.” IFLScience. IFLScience Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/girl-left-her-contacts-6-months-and-amoebas-ate-her-eyeballs/> (accessed 30 October 2018).

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. 2003. Truck Safety: Share the Road Safely Program Needs Better Evaluation of Its Initiatives. 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

Moyer, Ashley Suzanne. 2012. “The A+ Schools Program and School Improvement.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University.

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

Wilson, Michael. 2017. “Sentencing Will Provide Coda for Television Producer’s Real Crime Drama.” New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Music Theory Spectrum
Abbreviation	Music Theory Spectr.
ISSN (print)	0195-6167
ISSN (online)	1533-8339
Scope	Music