Journal Details
Musicology Australia
Instructions for Authors
Musicology Australia is the scholarly journal of the Musicological Society of Australia, publishing both articles and reviews.
Guidelines for ContributorsSubmissions (in Word, not pdf) can be sent to the editor by email but music examples and figures formatted in programmes other than Word should be sent on CD by post. If sent by post, three print-outs of all material are required.
Authors should ensure that:
1. Their name is removed from the article, for purposes of anonymous peer review
2. Line spacing is at least 1.5 lines and should have generous margins
3. The journal's house style is followed
The journal's peer review policy and guidelines for special issues are available from the editor upon request.
Manuscripts should be 7000-10,000 words, although shorter and longer manuscripts will also be considered. Book reviews normally should be up to 2000 words, and review articles should not exceed 4500 words.
Manuscript Processing
Manuscripts may be sent at any time to:
Dr Paul Watt
School of Music - Conservatorium
Monash University
VIC 3800
Australia
Receipt of manuscripts will be acknowledged.
Manuscripts are reviewed by at least two readers and the editor. Taking into account the reports of the readers, the editor will either accept, accept subject to revision, or reject the manuscript, and will notify the author in writing detailing any required revisions as appropriate. The editor's decision will be final, and no discussion of the merits or otherwise of a rejected manuscript will be entered into by the editor with the author.
The revision process ordinarily will be completed within three months. If processing is delayed, authors will be notified.
When a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author will be notified of the issue in which it will appear. Because of space and cost limitations, it may not be possible to include a manuscript accepted for publication in the next issue. Authors will have the opportunity to withdraw a manuscript if the delay is unacceptable.
Manuscripts are accepted for publication subject to stylistic editing. Proofs will be sent to authors for final checking. Authors will be notified of the period when proofs will be sent to them and will be expected to return corrected proofs within seven days of receipt.
Style Guide for Musicology Australia
Articles in Musicology Australia may use the author-date system or conventional footnotes.
Articles in ethnomusicology and related fields
Submissions in ethnomusicology and related areas are encouraged to use the author-date method (i.e. the Harvard method of citation) for bibliographic sources and conventional footnotes for secondary of further discussion, with a full list of works cited at the end of the article. The in-text reference should be formatted thus: (Jones 2007, 3)
End-of chapter reference should be formatted in the following ways:
Book:
Berndt, Ronald M. (1976), Love Songs of Arnhem Land. Melbourne: Nelson.
Chapter in a Book:
Knopoff, Steven (1997), ‘Accompanying the Dreaming: Determinants of Didjeridu Style in Traditional and Popular Yonlgnu Song', in Karl Neuenfeldt (ed.), The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet. Sydney: Libbey, 39–67.
Article in a Reference Work:
Wild, Stephen (1997), ‘Aboriginal Music', in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music ed. Warren Bebbington. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1–10.
Journal Article:
Garde, Murray (1998), ‘From a Distance: Aboriginal Music in the Maningrida Community and on their Internet Site'. Perfect Beat 4/1: 4–18.
Thesis:
Dunbar-Hall, Peter (1994), ‘Style and Meaning: Signification in Contemporary Aboriginal Popular Music, 1963–93'. PhD thesis, University of New South Wales.
Website:
Neighbour, O.W. ‘Schoenberg, Arnold', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 5 October 2001), <http://www.grovemusic.com>
Articles in musicology and related fields
These articles should use conventional footnotes with full citations without a bibliography or references list at the end of the article. Footnotes must be formatted using the following conventions.
Book:
David Revill, The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life (London: Bloomsbury, 1992), 174.
Chapter in a Book:
Barbara L. Kelly, ‘History and Homage', in Deborah Mawer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ravel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 1–26.
Article in a Reference Work:
Stephen Wild, ‘Aboriginal Music', in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music ed. Warren Bebbington (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1–10.
Journal Article:
Cecilia Sun, ‘Resisting the Airport: Bang on a Can Performs Brian Eno', Musicology Australia 29 (2007), 135–60.
Thesis:
Alexandra Williams, ‘The Dodo was Really a Phoenix: The Renaissance and Revival of the Recorder in England 1879–1941', (PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 2005).
Website:
O.W. Neighbour: 'Schoenberg, Arnold', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 5 October 2001), <http://www.grovemusic.com>
Note: Ibid should be used when references are immediately repeated in the next footnote, and short titles can be used when references are repeated in later footnotes. ‘Op. cit.' and ‘loc. cit' must not be used.
Other stylistic conventions:
Numbers less than 100 should be written out, for example, nine, fourteen, thirty-seven.
Numerals should be punctuated thus: 100, 1456, 23,456, 104,987, 6,987,098.
Dates should be rendered: 3 February 1969.
Use single quotes for quotations, or double quotes for quotations within quotations.
Spellings should use ‘ize' endings, for example, emphasize; specialize. For more information, see Judith Butcher, Copyediting, 3rd edition, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 160.
Initials should be formatted as J.S Bach; not J. S. Bach.
Periods should be inserted after Dr. Mr. Prof. Rev. St., etc.
Page spans should be set out as: 1–14; 15–19 (not 15–9); 23–4; 567–8; 603–5 (not 603–05).
Titles of music works: See Butcher, Copyediting, pp. 364–5; the following are Butcher's examples, summarized:
• Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
• Mozart's ‘Jupiter' Symphony
• Dichterliebe
• Missa Papae Marcelli
• Beethoven's Mass in D
• Piano Concerto in A minor
• All images must be scanned at between 600 and 1200dpi, though we will accept lower resolution if there is no other option.
• Artwork must be supplied in .tif and .eps files.
• Images, photos and diagrams formatted in Word, .pdf or Excel are not acceptable.
• Sibelius files for music examples are preferred over Finale and must be supplied as eps files. Pdfs of music examples are not acceptable.
• E-files must be kept separate from the articles.
