How to format your references using the Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain. 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

Gatenby, R. A. (2009). A change of strategy in the war on cancer. Nature, 459(7246), 508–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crespi, B., & Springer, S. (2003). Ecology. Social slime molds meet their match. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5603), 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregg, J. W., Jones, C. G., & Dawson, T. E. (2003). Urbanization effects on tree growth in the vicinity of New York City. Nature, 424(6945), 183–187.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sridhar, V. V., Kapoor, A., Zhang, K., Zhu, J., Zhou, T., Hasegawa, P. M., Bressan, R. A., & Zhu, J.-K. (2007). Control of DNA methylation and heterochromatic silencing by histone H2B deubiquitination. Nature, 447(7145), 735–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou, C. (2013). Design and Analysis of Composite Structures. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Park, J.-Y. (Ed.). (2015). Sports Injuries to the Shoulder and Elbow. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahsan, J., Mordeson, J. N., & Shabir, M. (2012). Fuzzy Quasi-ideals and Fuzzy Bi-ideals in Semirings. In J. N. Mordeson & M. Shabir (Eds.), Fuzzy Semirings with Applications to Automata Theory (pp. 83–103). 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 Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, August 18). Rare “Blond” Penguin Spotted in Antarctica. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-blond-penguin-spotted-antarctica/

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. (1980). Long-Term Planning for National Science Policy (112965). 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

Parker, E. C. (2010). Perceptions of youth with diabetes and their parents/guardians about youth eating habits and nutrition-related difficulties [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

Saslow, L. (2007, April 22). Roslyn Chooses New Schools Superintendent. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gatenby, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Crespi & Springer, 2003; Gatenby, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Crespi & Springer, 2003)
Three authors: (Gregg et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Sridhar et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain
Abbreviation	Psychomusicology
ISSN (print)	0275-3987
ISSN (online)	2162-1535
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