How to format your references using the Accounting Forum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounting Forum. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Willyard, C. (2011). Lifestyle: Breaking the cancer habit. Nature, 471(7339), S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wellik, D. M., & Capecchi, M. R. (2003). Hox10 and Hox11 genes are required to globally pattern the mammalian skeleton. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5631), 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turney, C. S. M., Roberts, R. G., & Jacobs, Z. (2006). Archaeology: progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating. Nature, 443(7108), E3; discussion E4.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yu, L., Liu, J., Wu, K., Klein, T., Jiang, Y., & Wang, J.-P. (2014). Evaluation of hyperthermia of magnetic nanoparticles by dehydrating DNA. Scientific Reports, 4, 7216.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

André, É., & Soulat, R. (2013). The Inverse Method. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Whitacre, D. M. (Ed.). (2015). Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (Vol. 234). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Saitoh, S., & Sawano, Y. (2016). Applications to Ordinary Differential Equations. In Y. Sawano (Ed.), Theory of Reproducing Kernels and Applications (pp. 217–230). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Accounting Forum.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, December 2). Climate Change Is About To Accelerate Past The Point Of No Return. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-change-accelerate-past-point-no-return/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1998). Air Traffic Control: Information Concerning Equipment Outages at Two Kansas City Area Facilities (RCED-98-256R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Frederiksen, M. D. (2013). Engaging physicians to support corporate compliance programs: A grounded theory study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Grynbaum, M. M., & Steel, E. (2017, May 1). Fox News, Pledging New Culture, Ousts Another Symbol of Old One. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Wellik & Capecchi, 2003; Willyard, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Wellik & Capecchi, 2003)
Three authors: (Turney et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Yu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Accounting Forum
ISSN (print)	0155-9982
Scope	Accounting Finance