How to format your references using the Organised Sound citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organised Sound. 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

Allen, P. B. 2000. Condensed-matter physics. Misbehaviour in metals. Nature 405(6790), 1007–1008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smyth, M. J. and Kershaw, M. H. 2011. Immunology. The adjuvant effects of antibodies. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333(6045), 944–945.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nguyen, T. D., Ehrenfreund, E., and Vardeny, Z. V. 2012. Spin-polarized light-emitting diode based on an organic bipolar spin valve. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6091), 204–209.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McManus, T. M., Valiente-Kroon, J. A., Horsley, S. A. R., and Hao, Y. 2014. Illusions and cloaks for surface waves. Scientific Reports 4, 5977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niemi, V. and Nyberg, K. 2006. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kawash, J. (Ed.). 2014. Online Social Media Analysis and Visualization. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Herek, G. M. 2009. Sexual Stigma and Sexual Prejudice in the United States: A Conceptual Framework. In D. A. Hope (ed.), Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities. New York, NY: Springer, 65–111.

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 Organised Sound.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2016, August 9. Meteorites Might Destroy Evidence Of Life On Mars. https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteorites-might-destroy-evidence-of-life-on-mars/ (accessed 30 October 2018).

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. 1984. Reasons for Lack of Replacement for Failed Weather Satellite (No. RCED-84-198). 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

Powell, B. D. 2009. An ethnographic case study of teachers who are alumni of the private day school for boys in which they teach (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Gordon, M. R. 2017, May 4. Iraqi Forces Open a New Front Against ISIS in West Mosul. New York Times, p. A6. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Allen 2000; Smyth & Kershaw 2011).

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

Two authors: (Smyth & Kershaw 2011)
Three or more authors: (McManus et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organised Sound
ISSN (print)	1355-7718
ISSN (online)	1469-8153
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