On Lerdahl (2001), are there really other authors involved? I have a copy of Tonal Pitch Space and based on what I see, it is solely written by Lerdahl.
For consistency, make the indentation (i.e., first entry) and format of the identifiers (<author><year><firstword>) equal in all bibtex entries.
That is a well-spotted mistake. the "and others" appears on the Google Scholar BibTex entry, but it is a mistake on their end. I corrected this.
I also corrected the formatting as you suggest
This issue is related to the following review: https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/3784
On the
paper.bib
file:<author><year><firstword>
) equal in all bibtex entries.