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version (McGill only)
- Use the Author-Date system, for example, (Kingma and Ba 2014)
- Do not use a reference in parentheses as a subject or an object of a sentence
- For example, do not write: “(Kingma and Ba 2014) is a highly cited paper. ” Write: “Kingma and Ba (2014) is a highly cited paper.”
- Never underline
- Use en-dash between numbers
- Be consistent in the use of serial comma (I prefer Oxford comma)
- Minimize the use of Internet references (e.g., Wikipedia), expect for established online journals (e.g., D-Lib)
- Distinguish between quotes (“”) and apostrophes (’) from inch marks
('' )and foot marks (')
- No double spaces after a period or anywhere
- e.g., means for example (exempli gratia); use the comma
- i.e., means in other words (id est); use the comma
- No spaces before and after em-dash
- Avoid contractions (e.g., don’t)
- In Author-Date citations: no comma between author name and the date;
semi-colon between multiple citations
- Define (spell out) acronym on its first appearance, unless it is
very familiar to the audience (e.g., MIDI)
- Know the difference between restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. Most use of which should likely be replaced by that.
Hint: There should be a comma before which
- Use the date format: 1 April 2001 (least amount of punctuation); or use ISO style: 2001-04-01
- Be consistent about where to put punctuations; inside or outside quote signs
- Join Ich’s campaign to make realtime one word
- Use all the digits in inclusive numbers, such as, page number (e.g., 143–144 and 2233–2245)
- Compound-adjectives hint: does the adjective before the noun and
the noun make sense without the hyphen? For example:
- frequency-domain feature
- snare drum strokes
- polyphonic piano transcription systems
- higher-level musical knowledge-based rules
- early music technology research
- No hyphen after an adverb ending in “ly”
- Examples in The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.):
- More examples at Naval Postgraduate School (17th ed.). But use Day Month Year format.
- Examples in The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.):
- Journals:
- Books, edited books, and journals:
- A chapter in a book or a paper in a conference proceeding:
- ISMIR conference names
- 2009–: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
- 2002–2008: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
- 2000–2001: International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval
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