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

Xu, Z. (2011). Modernization: One step at a time. Nature, 480(7378), S90-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laanisto, L., & Hutchings, M. J. (2015). Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6265), 1177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Piana, S., Reyhani, M., & Gale, J. D. (2005). Simulating micrometre-scale crystal growth from solution. Nature, 438(7064), 70–73.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Baba, D., Maita, N., Jee, J.-G., Uchimura, Y., Saitoh, H., Sugasawa, K., Hanaoka, F., Tochio, H., Hiroaki, H., & Shirakawa, M. (2005). Crystal structure of thymine DNA glycosylase conjugated to SUMO-1. Nature, 435(7044), 979–982.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G., & Broniatowski, M. (2017). Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pardalos, P. M., & Rassias, T. M. (Eds.). (2012). Essays in Mathematics and its Applications: In Honor of Stephen Smale´s 80th Birthday. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Budhu, A., Ji, J., & Wang, X. W. (2010). Genomic Profiling of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma. In B. I. Carr (Ed.), Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Treatment (pp. 131–182). Humana Press.

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, August 31). Five New Species Of Flying Monkey Described. 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. (2004). General Aviation Security: Increased Federal Oversight Is Needed, but Continued Partnership with the Private Sector Is Critical to Long-Term Success (GAO-05-144). 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

Seyed Jalali Aghdam, S. M. (2015). Silica aerogel, an alternative to micromachined air gap for thermal insulation of microheaters [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Chira, S. (2013, September 26). When a House Falls in the Forest. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Laanisto & Hutchings, 2015; Xu, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Laanisto & Hutchings, 2015)
Three authors: (Piana et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Baba et al., 2005)

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