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

Finkelstein, J. (2009). Metalloproteins. Nature, 460(7257), 813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kronenberg, M., & Havran, W. L. (2014). Immunology: oiling the wheels of autoimmunity. Nature, 506(7486), 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsuo, N., Reijmers, L., & Mayford, M. (2008). Spine-type-specific recruitment of newly synthesized AMPA receptors with learning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1104–1107.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shen, S.-Z., Crowley, J. L., Wang, Y., Bowring, S. A., Erwin, D. H., Sadler, P. M., Cao, C.-Q., Rothman, D. H., Henderson, C. M., Ramezani, J., Zhang, H., Shen, Y., Wang, X.-D., Wang, W., Mu, L., Li, W.-Z., Tang, Y.-G., Liu, X.-L., Liu, L.-J., … Jin, Y.-G. (2011). Calibrating the end-Permian mass extinction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6061), 1367–1372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raczynski, S. (2006). Modeling and Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fusiello, A., Murino, V., & Cucchiara, R. (Eds.). (2012). Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. Workshops and Demonstrations: Florence, Italy, October 7-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part III (Vol. 7585). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Silva, R., Mota, A., & Starr, R. R. (2014). Formal MDE-Based Tool Development. In T. Bouabana-Tebibel & S. H. Rubin (Eds.), Integration of Reusable Systems (pp. 105–125). Springer International Publishing.

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

Davis, J. (2016, May 26). 100-Million-Year-Old Relationship May Soon Be Driven To Extinction. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/100-million-year-old-relationship-may-soon-be-driven-extinction/

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. (2002). Aviation Finance: Distribution of Airport Grant Funds Complied with Statutory Requirements (GAO-02-283). 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

Harris, S. K. (2017). Dissecting the Disappearing Act: Discussing the Dissipation of Black Male Role Models in Black Communities [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois University.

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

Feeney, K. (2006, October 8). QUICK BITE | Chester; Cider, From Doughnuts to Hot Dogs. New York Times, 14NJ19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkelstein, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Finkelstein, 2009; Kronenberg & Havran, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kronenberg & Havran, 2014)
Three authors: (Matsuo et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Shen et al., 2011)

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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