How to format your references using the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy citation style

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

Labeyrie, L. (2000). PALEOCLIMATE: Glacial Climate Instability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5498), 1905–1907.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shintani, T., & Klionsky, D. J. (2004). Autophagy in health and disease: a double-edged sword. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5698), 990–995.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wen, J., Zhou, S., & Chen, J. (2014). Colorimetric detection of Shewanella oneidensis based on immunomagnetic capture and bacterial intrinsic peroxidase activity. Scientific Reports, 4, 5191.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Moffitt, J. R., Chemla, Y. R., Aathavan, K., Grimes, S., Jardine, P. J., Anderson, D. L., & Bustamante, C. (2009). Intersubunit coordination in a homomeric ring ATPase. Nature, 457(7228), 446–450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sab, K., & Lebée, A. (2015). Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Flandre, D., Nazarov, A. N., & Hemment, P. L. F. (Eds.). (2005). Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment Kiev, Ukraine 26–30 April 2004 (Vol. 185). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Medellin-Gasque, R., Atkinson, K., McBurney, P., & Bench-Capon, T. (2012). Arguments over Co-operative Plans. In S. Modgil, N. Oren, & F. Toni (Eds.), Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation: First International Workshop, TAFA 2011. Barcelona, Spain, July 16-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 50–66). 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 Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 17). Watch Doctors Remove A 19cm Worm From A Man’s Eyeball. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1991). Federal Research: Status of DOE’s Superconducting Super Collider (RCED-91-116). 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

LaVertu, D. J. (2017). An Exploratory Approach to In-Trinity® for Fall Prevention [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Fitzsimmons, E. G. (2017, June 29). Cuomo Declares State of Emergency for Subway, Citing System’s Dysfunction. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Labeyrie, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Labeyrie, 2000; Shintani & Klionsky, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Shintani & Klionsky, 2004)
Three authors: (Wen et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Moffitt et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
Abbreviation	Nord. J. Music Ther.
ISSN (print)	0809-8131
ISSN (online)	1944-8260
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Complementary and alternative medicine Phychiatric Mental Health Anthropology