Instructions for Submitting a Contribution for the Journal of Sonic Studies

Editors-in-chief
Marcel Cobussen
Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Mail to: noise@sonicstudies.org
Vincent Meelberg
Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Mail to: noise@sonicstudies.org
Associate editors
Sharon Stewart
Mail to: noise@sonicstudies.org
Jan Nieuwenhuis
Mail to: noise@sonicstudies.org
Introduction
- This document contains instructions for authors working on a contribution to appear in
the JSS.
- Submission of a contribution will be taken to imply that it represents original,
unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- By submitting a contribution, authors agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and
distribute the article rest with the JSS.
- All contributions will be submitted for anonymous editorial review by invited reviewers
and/or members of the JSS editorial board.

- If a contribution is accepted, the corresponding author will receive page proofs for
checking.
JSS and the Research Catalogue

- JSS uses the open source Research Catalogue (RC) as its platform for publication
because it allows for an optimal integration of text, audio materials, images, videos,
etc. RC users are free to structure their work in a way that best suits their approach,
e.g. not necessarily in a linear way.

- As JSS advocates the use of non-textual materials, hyperlinks, and the exploration of
new ways of providing knowledge/text, we recommend potential contributors to use
the RC right from the start.

- More information on the use of the RC can be found here.

The text
- The contribution may be written using Microsoft Word. However, we prefer that the
submission is made entirely in the Research Catalogue.
- Although there is no real upper limit for contributions, the JSS editors advise not to
exceed 10,000 words (including abstract, audio and A/V materials, and references).
- An abstract and a bio, both of about 150 words, are required.
- Authors for whom English is a second language should have their contribution checked
by an academically-trained native speaker before submission. Alternatively, our
associate editor can check and, if necessary, correct the contribution. The costs for this
will be charged to the authors. Please contact the editors for further information.
- The length of reviews can vary between 500 and 3000 words.
- When not using the Research Catalogue, these are some specific Word functionalities:

Spacing

No unnecessary spacing, tabs, indentations or empty lines. Only long

quotes should be indented.

Notes
Tables

Footnotes (JSS uses no endnotes) should be inserted using the Word

menu.

To ensure a clean transformation of tables please consider:

not merging cells or splitting cells

not using spaces nor line breaks (for indentation you may apply a .
before the word, i.e. a dot followed by one space)

not making your table look better by applying colors, thicker lines,
etc. (these looks will be lost upon transformation)

if your table is too large and/or complex to fit into these rules you
may deliver your table as an image (JPG file)
Headings

The hierarchical structure is best kept if you apply the appropriate

style for your headings using the style selector on the formatting
toolbar.

Colors

Any color styling information applied to the text (colors of the text
and background colors) will be ignored in the transformation process

Special
characters

Any special characters that cannot be typed using the keyboard

Columns

Columns are not supported. As an alternative, you may consider using

should be inserted using the Word menu Insert Symbol

a table with two or more columns without any borders or shading

Multimedia content
- JSS advocates references to multimedia (audio, A/V, images) content.
- Multimedia content will be hosted on our own server.
- Multimedia content needs to be sent as separate files, unless the contribution is made
directly into the Research Catalogue.
- It should be noted that upon publishing the files in JSS, the editors assume you are the
copyright holder of the multimedia content.
- To make references to multimedia in a Word text, a special marker must be placed in
the text. The marker dictates the location of the reference in the article. To make
markers easily recognizable, they should be highlighted.
Some text in the article
AudioObject 1: description of multimedia object 1
Continuation of the text in the article
Audio
- Audio files should be encoded in either MP3 or AAC format.
- If you want to use only certain parts of an audio file (e.g. from 100 200), do not
send the whole audio file, but only the appropriate section.
Video
- Video files should be encoded in either MP4 or MOV format.
- If you want to use YouTube or other online videos, first encode them in either MP4 or
MOV format.
- If you dont want readers/viewers to watch the whole movie, please cut the parts that
are not appropriate to your contribution.
- The captions of a YouTube (or other online videos) should contain a reference to the
YouTube URL, the owner of the movie, and the date it was put on the YouTube channel.
Images
- Image format must be either JPEG or GIF.
- The longest side of an image should be between 700 and 960 pixels, and have a
resolution of 72 ppi.
- Figures that are referenced to in the text should be delivered as separate files unless
the contribution is made directly in the Research Catalogue.

Spelling and Punctuation

- JSS uses US spelling as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize,
recognize).
- Please use double quotation marks throughout your text. Only use single quotations
marks for quotes within quotes.
- Dates should be in the form 9 May 2000 (no comma), on 9 May, or on the 9th; 1990s
(no apostrophe); nineteenth century (not 19th century); and with hyphen when used
adjectivally (e.g. nineteenth-century art).
- The names of historical periods and events are capitalized (Middle Ages, Renaissance,
Baroque, Enlightenment, French Revolution, First/Second World War), but derivations
are often lowercased (medieval, baroque, enlightened).

References
- The references should be listed alphabetically in full at the end of the paper.
- References in the text should be presented by the authors name and year of publication
in brackets, together with the page numbers, e.g. (Floyd 2002: 55).
- Try to avoid redundant referencing and remove the authors name from the reference
whenever it is clear from the text who the author is, e.g. As Floyd (2002: 40-41) has
observed, or, in a more general reference: Floyd (2002) appears to be saying
- When a reference is mentioned repeatedly, the year may be omitted as well.
- When the work has two authors, always cite both names every time. When there are
more than two authors and less than six, cite all authors the first time and after that,
just the surname of the first author followed by et al. The names of all authors should
be given in the reference list.
- Please note that if manuscripts do not comply with these guidelines, publication can be
severely delayed or even refused. The JSS editors are willing to check and correct the
style and references of a contribution, but the author will be charged a fee for this.
Journal articles
- References to periodical articles must include the following elements: author(s), date
of publication, article title, journal title, volume number, issue number (if applicable),
and page numbers.
- If the author is unknown, add anon. (without quotation marks).
- Journal article, one author: Henriques, Julian (2010). The Vibrations of Affect and their
Propagation on a Night Out on Kingstons Dancehall Scene. Body & Society 16/1: 5789.
- Journal article, more than one author: Bertelsen, Olav W., Morten Breinbjerg and Sren
Pold (2009). Emerging Materiality: Reflections on Creative Use of Software in
Electronic Music Composition. Leonardo 42: 197-202.
- Online articles should be hyperlinked: Cobussen, Marcel and Vincent Meelberg (2011).
Reflections on Sonic Environments. Journal of Sonic Studies 1/1.
Sounding art recordings
- References to a music or sound art recording must include the following elements:
performer(s), date of release, title of recording, type of carrier (if possible), name of
publisher.
- Dave Holland Quartet (1989). Extensions [CD]. ECM.
Sounding art compositions
- References to sounding art compositions must include the following elements:
composer, date of publication, title of composition, place of publication, name of the
publisher.
- Boulez, Pierre (1998). Sur Incises. Vienna: Universal Edition.

Books
- References to an entire book must include the following elements: author(s) or
editor(s), date of publication, title, place of publication, and the name of the publisher.
Only list the publishers first/main place of publication, and only list the date of
publication of the book/edition that you have used.
- Book, one author: Ashby, Arved Mark (2010). Absolute Music, Mechanical
Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Book, more than one author: Pfeifer, Rolf and Josh C. Bongard (2007). How the Body
Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Edited book, one editor: Levin, David M. (ed.) (1993). Modernity and the Hegemony of
Vision. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Edited book, more than one editor: Gody, Rolf Inge and Marc Leman (eds.) (2010).
Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning. New York: Routledge.
- Edited book, different editor than the author: Adorno, Theodor and Walter Benjamin
(1999). The Complete Correspondence 1928-1940. Ed. Henri Lonitz (trans. Nicholas
Walker). Cambridge: Polity press.
- Translated book: Attali, Jacques (2003). Noise: A Political Economy of Music (trans.
Brian Massumi). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Second or later edition of book: Bal, Mieke (1997). Narratology: Introduction to the
Theory of Narrative. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Chapters in edited books
- References to an essay or chapter in an edited book must include the following
elements: essay or chapter authors, date of publication, essay or chapter title, book
editor(s), book title, essay or chapter page numbers, place of publication, and the name
of the publisher.
- Tanaka, Atau (2006). Interaction, Experience, and the Future of Music. In Kenton
OHara and Barry Brown (eds.), Consuming Music Together: Social and Collaborative
Aspects of Music Consumption Technologies (pp. 271-292). New York: Springer.
Conference presentations
- References to an unpublished conference presentation must include the following
elements: author, date of presentation, title, name and location of conference.
- Tiller, Asbjrn (2011). Sewer Sounds: Environment Amplification and Composition.
Paper presented at the Media Acts Conference, Trondheim.
Conference proceedings
- References to conference proceedings must include the following elements: essay or
chapter authors, date of publication, essay or chapter title, book editor(s), book title,
essay or chapter page numbers, place of publication or place of university or
organization where the conference was held, and the name of the publisher, the
university or organization where the conference was held.
- Meelberg, Vincent (2009). Sonic Strokes and Musical Gestures: The Difference
between Musical Affect and Musical Emotion. In Jukka Louhivuori, Tuomas Eerola, Suvi
Saarikallio, Tommi Himberg, and Pivi-Sisko Eerola (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th
Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
(ESCOM) (pp. 324-327). Jyvskyl: University of Jyvskyl.

Websites
- References to websites must include the following elements: author (if possible), date
of publication (if possible), and title.
- The URL should be embedded in the title, in order to turn the title into a hyperlink.
- Dack, John (1999). Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte and Narrativity. or
Parliamentary Prize for Surman. or http://www.cycling74.com.
PhD dissertations and theses
- References to an unpublished PhD dissertation, Bachelor or Masters thesis must include
the following elements: author, date of publication, title, type of dissertation/thesis,
location of university, name of university.
- Titus, Barbara (2005). Conceptualizing Music: Friedrich Theodor Vischer and Hegelian
Currents in German Music Criticism, 1848-1887 (Doctoral dissertation). Oxford:
University of Oxford.
- Ooijen, Robbert (2010). Home Streaming is Killing Piracy: How Streaming Music
Affects the Notion of Music Piracy (Masters thesis). Utrecht: Utrecht University.
Newspaper articles
- References to an article in a newspaper must include the following elements: author,
exact date of publication, article title, name of newspaper, section (if applicable), page
number(s).
- The URL (if possible) should be embedded in the title, in order to turn the title into a
hyperlink.
- Wakin, Daniel (2012). Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra. New York
Times, January 12, The Arts: 1.
Personal communication and personal journals
- References to personal communication must include the following elements: author,
exact date during which the communication took place.
- Personal communication should not be included in the reference section at the end of
the submission, but only as a footnote: 1 Arlander, Annette (personal communication,
March 1, 2013).
- References to personal journals should only be done via a footnote in text; they are
not listed in the reference section.
Movies
- References to a movie must include the following elements: director, date of release,
title of movie, type of carrier (if possible), name and country of publisher.
- Docter, Pete (Director). (2002). Monsters Inc. [DVD]. United States: Buena Vista Home
Entertainment.
Television broadcasts
- References to a television broadcast must include the following elements: executive
producer, exact date of broadcast, title of program/show, name and location of
network.
- Crystal, Lester (Executive Producer) (1993, October 11). The MacNeil/Lehrer News
Hour. New York: Public Broadcasting Service.