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

Carr, L. D. (2013). Physics. Negative temperatures? Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6115), 42–43.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fyodorov, D. V., & Kadonaga, J. T. (2002). Dynamics of ATP-dependent chromatin assembly by ACF. Nature, 418(6900), 897–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nisbet, E. G., Dlugokencky, E. J., & Bousquet, P. (2014). Atmospheric science. Methane on the rise--again. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6170), 493–495.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tan, J., Wang, G., Liu, Z. Y., Bednarčík, J., Gao, Y. L., Zhai, Q. J., Mattern, N., & Eckert, J. (2014). Correlation between atomic structure evolution and strength in a bulk metallic glass at cryogenic temperature. Scientific Reports, 4, 3897.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, C. (2012). Mastering Elliott Wave Principle. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hanaoka, F., & Sugasawa, K. (Eds.). (2016). DNA Replication, Recombination, and Repair: Molecular Mechanisms and Pathology (1st ed. 2016). Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Novak, J. M., Armstrong, D. E., & Browne, B. (2014). Leading Others. In D. E. Armstrong & B. Browne (Eds.), Leading For Educational Lives: Inviting and Sustaining Imaginative Acts of Hope in a Connected World (pp. 69–83). SensePublishers.

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. (2015, October 20). El Niño Brings Venomous Sea Snakes To California. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/el-ni-o-brings-venomous-sea-snakes-california/

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. (1991). Strategic Bombers: Issues Related to the B-1B Aircraft Program (T-NSIAD-91-11). 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

Szurley, J. C. (2010). The use of edge detection techniques to analyze thoracoabdominal movement and infer breathing volume [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, October 2). Collins Will Move From Dugout to Front Office as Mets Turn to Other Questions. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carr, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Carr, 2013; Fyodorov & Kadonaga, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fyodorov & Kadonaga, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Tan et al., 2014)

About the journal

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