How to format your references using the Organised Sound citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organised Sound. 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

Tutu, D. 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. My genome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331(6018), 689.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fauci, A. S. and Marston, H. D. 2015. PUBLIC HEALTH. Toward an HIV vaccine: A scientific journey. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349(6246), 386–387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Christensen, U. R., Holzwarth, V., and Reiners, A. 2009. Energy flux determines magnetic field strength of planets and stars. Nature 457(7226), 167–169.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maldonado, A. M., Doerner, P., Dixon, R. A., Lamb, C. J., and Cameron, R. K. 2002. A putative lipid transfer protein involved in systemic resistance signalling in Arabidopsis. Nature 419(6905), 399–403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham, L. 2010. Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gattaz, W. F. and Busatto, G. (Eds.). 2010. Advances in Schizophrenia Research 2009. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Netzer, A. and Meisels, A. 2012. SOCIAL DCOP - Social Choice in Distributed Constraints Optimization. In F. M. T. Brazier, K. Nieuwenhuis, G. Pavlin, M. Warnier, and C. Badica (eds.), Intelligent Distributed Computing V: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2011, Delft, The Netherlands – October 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 35–47.

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 Organised Sound.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015, May 2. Study Reveals How Traveling To Mars Could Damage Astronaut’s Brains. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-traveling-mars-damages-your-brain/ (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. 1976. Construction of a Computer Facilities Building by the Social Security Administration: Justification and Alternatives (No. HRD-77-8). 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

Marcheschi, R. L. 2010. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding individuals with epilepsy by marriage and family therapists and social workers (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G. 2011, July 28. An Underachieving Symbol of the Mets’ Lost Decade. New York Times, p. B15. B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tutu 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fauci & Marston 2015; Tutu 2011).

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

Two authors: (Fauci & Marston 2015)
Three or more authors: (Maldonado et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organised Sound
ISSN (print)	1355-7718
ISSN (online)	1469-8153
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