How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematics and Music citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematics and Music. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

Brooks BA. Geophysics. Seeing is believing. Science. 2012;338(6104):207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fehr E, Gächter S. Altruistic punishment in humans. Nature. 2002;415(6868):137–140.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chalancon G, Kruse K, Babu MM. Cell biology. Reconfiguring regulation. Science. 2012;335(6072):1050–1051.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Johnston CA, Temple BR, Chen J-G, et al. Comment on “A G protein coupled receptor is a plasma membrane receptor for the plant hormone abscisic acid.” Science. 2007;318(5852):914; author reply 914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Démoulin B, Besnier P. Electromagnetic Reverberation Chambers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Roberts P, editor. From West to East and Back Again: An Educational Reading of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Roze E, Bonnet C, Betuing S, et al. Huntington’s Disease. In: Ahmad SI, editor. Diseases of DNA Repair. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 45–63.

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 Journal of Mathematics and Music.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Fossilized Tracks Reveal How Ancient Sea Monsters Moved. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Contemplated Legislation To Provide Telecommunications for the Deaf. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978. Report No.: LCD-78-118. .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kim H. Empathy in the Early Childhood Classroom: Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Practices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2017.

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

[1]

Brantley B. Upending a Whodunit. New York Times. 2017 Apr 3;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematics and Music
Abbreviation	J. Math. Music
ISSN (print)	1745-9737
ISSN (online)	1745-9745
Scope	Music Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Modelling and Simulation