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• If the text is structured in chapters that bear a title, these will be written as follows: titles of chapters – BOLD SMALL CAPS; titles of sub-chapters – Regular Bold.
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• Double quotation marks (“ ”) ought to be used for quoted material within a text, while single quotation marks (‘ ’) should be used for quotes within quotes (e.g. Chrysanthos writes that “Petros learned the power of the cheironomia . . . and he was saying: ‘If I only knew that there exists an expert of the cheironomia even in America, I would go’”.). Papers written in German or French will use the quotation marks accordingly: „ “ for German; « » for French.
• Use italics for titles of works and for foreign words, e.g. Chrysanthos mentions cheironomia in his Great Theory of Music; Mussorgsky composed Pictures at an Exhibition. If the piece doesn’t bear a special title, its name will be written in roman: Sonata No. 6, Op. 62; Five Preludes, Op. 74.
• Titles in other languages than English, French or German will be accompanied by their English translation in brackets (e.g.: La piață [At the Marketplace]), both in the main text and in the references.
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• Musical notes will be written in capital letters in English or German: C, D etc. (in French, in small letters: do, ré etc.). Accidentals will be put as symbols and after the note: B♭  – C – D – F♯ (not B flat, F sharp).
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• As the journal is also published in black-and-white printed form, the authors are kindly asked to avoid illustrations that need to be printed in color.
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• Provide an abstract (up to 200 words) and a short bio (up to 150 words) in English. For works in the Studies section please also give three to six keywords.

2. References

•  References will be given in the text (e.g. Boulez 1963: 17; Cook 2002a: 15-29; Cook 2002b: 63-7). All the quoted works will be listed at the end of the paper in the following way:
  Name, First name
  Year 1 Work 1
  Year 2 Work 2
  etc.
• The title of work will be mentioned as follows:
  • BOOK: Title: Subtitle (City: Printing Press).
  • CHAPTER IN A COLLECTIVE WORK: “Title”, in Book, ed. Name of the editor (City: Printing Press), pages.
  • ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL: “Title”, Journal, volume/issue, pages.
  • INTERNET: “Title”, internet address, accessed on Month Date, Year.
• Example
  REFERENCES
  Boulez, Pierre
  1963   Penser la musique aujourd’hui (Geneva: Gonthier).

  Firca, Clemansa Liliana
  1984    “Eterofonia”  [Heterophony],  in  Dicţionar  de  termeni  muzicali  [Dictionary  of  Musical Terms], eds. Zeno Vancea, Gheorghe Firca (Bucharest: Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică), 165-8.

  Napier, John
  2006    “A ‘Failed’ Unison or Conscious Differentiation: The Notion of ‘Heterophony’ in North Indian Vocal Performance”, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 37/1, 85-108.

  Perle, George
  1978    Twelve-Tone Tonality (Berkeley: University of California Press).
  1984 “Scriabin’s Self-Analyses”, Music Analysis, 3/2, 101-22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/854313, accessed on April 10th, 2016.

  Sachs, Curt
  1961    The Wellsprings of Music, ed. Jaap Kunst (New York: McGraw-Hill).

  Wolff, Christian, Larry Polansky, Kui Dong, Christian Asplund, Michael Hicks
  2007    “Improvisation, Heterophony, Politics, Composition: A Panel Discussion”, Perspectives of New Music, 45/2, 133-49.