Note that this reference documentation is identical to the help that is displayed in MATLAB when you type “help ft_prepare_montage”.

  FT_PREPARE_MONTAGE creates a referencing scheme based on the input configuration
  options and the channels in the data structure. The resulting montage can be
  given as input to FT_APPLY_MONTAGE, or as cfg.montage to FT_PREPROCESSING.
 
  Use as
    montage = ft_prepare_montage(cfg, data)
 
  The configuration can contain the following fields:
    cfg.refmethod     = 'avg', 'bioloar', 'comp' (default = 'avg')
    cfg.implicitref   = string with the label of the implicit reference, or empty (default = [])
    cfg.refchannel    = cell-array with new EEG reference channel(s), this can be 'all' for a common average reference
 
  The implicitref option allows adding the implicit reference channel to the data as
  a channel with zeros.
 
  See also FT_PREPROCESSING, FT_APPLY_MONTAGE