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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Music Technology and Education (JMTE). 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 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

Kempton, E. M. R. (2014), 'Extrasolar planets: Window on a watery world', Nature, 513:7519, pp. 493–494.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cruz, M. and Coontz, R. (2011), 'Galaxy evolution. A universe of galaxies. Introduction', Science (New York, N.Y.), 333:6039, pp. 169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duncan, K., Sadanand, A. and Davachi, L. (2012), 'Memory’s penumbra: episodic memory decisions induce lingering mnemonic biases', Science (New York, N.Y.), 337:6093, pp. 485–487.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gardner, T. S., di Bernardo, D., Lorenz, D. and Collins, J. J. (2003), 'Inferring genetic networks and identifying compound mode of action via expression profiling', Science (New York, N.Y.), 301:5629, pp. 102–105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosier, J. A., Martens, M. A. and Thomas, J. R. (2014), Global New Drug Development, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vega, W. A., Markides, K. S., Angel, J. L. and Torres-Gil, F. M. (Eds.) (2015), Challenges of Latino Aging in the Americas, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ogawa, K., Ishiuchi, S. and Murayama, S. (2011), 'Brain Metastases from Breast Cancer: Treatment and Prognosis', in M. A. Hayat, (Ed.), Tumors of the Central Nervous system, Volume 3: Brain Tumors (Part 1), pp. 47–52, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Music Technology and Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 14), 'Robotic Octopus Arm Could Revolutionize Surgery',

retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-octopus-arm-will-revolutionize-surgery/

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 (1999), Customs Service Modernization: Serious Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected, No. AIMD-99-41, 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

Ehigiator, O. J. (2015), A Closed Loop Control System for Pressure and Flow Detection Using a Vibrating String Transducer, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, October 19), 'One of Us', New York Times, p. C9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kempton 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cruz and Coontz 2011; Kempton 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cruz and Coontz 2011)
Three authors: (Duncan, Sadanand, and Davachi 2012)
6 or more authors: (Gardner, di Bernardo, Lorenz, and Collins 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Music Technology and Education
Abbreviation	J. Music Technol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1752-7066
ISSN (online)	1752-7074
Scope	Music Computer Science Applications Education