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

Piran, T. (2002). Astronomy. Demotion looms for gamma-ray bursts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5557), 986–987.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anglada-Escudé, G., & Tuomi, M. (2015). Exoplanet detection. Comment on “Stellar activity masquerading as planets in the habitable zone of the M dwarf Gliese 581.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6226), 1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parker, H. G., Kruglyak, L., & Ostrander, E. A. (2006). Molecular genetics: DNA analysis of a putative dog clone. Nature, 440(7081), E1-2.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dong, K. F., Li, H. H., Peng, Y. G., Ju, G., Chow, G. M., & Chen, J. S. (2014). Nanogranular TiN-ZrO₂ intermediate layer induced improvement of isolation and grain size of FePt thin films. Scientific Reports, 4, 5607.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson, M. D. (2013). An Employer’s and Engineer’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Kim, T.-H., Yang, L. T., Park, J. H., Chang, A. C.-C., Vasilakos, T., & Yeo, S.-S. (Eds.). (2009). Advances in Communication and Networking: Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, December 13-15, 2008. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 27). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, C., Suzuki, J., & Vasilakos, A. V. (2010). iNet-EGT: An Evolutionarily Stable Adaptation Framework for Network Applications. In E. Altman, I. Carrera, R. El-Azouzi, E. Hart, & Y. Hayel (Eds.), Bioinspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems: 4th International Conference, BIONETICS 2009, Avignon, France, December 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 36–49). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 20). India: The Pharmacy Of The World Where ‘Crazy Drug combinations’ Go Unregulated. 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. (2006). Aviation Security: Management Challenges Remain for the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program (GAO-06-864T). 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

Wheaton, H. F. (2012). The Relationship between Team Captains’ Leadership Styles and Team Performance [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Steinhauer, J., Thrush, G., & Pear, R. (2017, July 19). How a Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piran, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Anglada-Escudé & Tuomi, 2015; Piran, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Anglada-Escudé & Tuomi, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al., 2014)

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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