How to format your references using the Accounting History Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounting History Review. 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

Service, Robert F. 2008. “Problem Solved* (*sort Of).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5890): 784–786.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ostriker, Jeremiah P., and Paul Steinhardt. 2003. “New Light on Dark Matter.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5627): 1909–1913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, Joseph J., Mattias Björnmalm, and Frank Caruso. 2015. “Multilayer Assembly. Technology-Driven Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Nanofilms.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6233): aaa2491.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Choi, Younghwan, Sangwan Sim, Seong Chu Lim, Young Hee Lee, and Hyunyong Choi. 2013. “Ultrafast Biexciton Spectroscopy in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Evidence for Early Emergence of Multiple-Exciton Generation.” Scientific Reports 3 (November): 3206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCall, Martin W. 2010. Classical Mechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

E. Mullins, Robert, and John Beeler, eds. 2016. The Transformation of British and American Naval Policy in the Pre-Dreadnought Era: Ideas, Culture and Strategy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Boer, Theodore. 2010. “The Relation between Theology and Philosophy, A Story of Troubled Twins.” In Philosophy of Religion, edited by Guttorm Fløistad, 107–127. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 History Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Why This Researcher Hunted For Scientists With Chests Narrower Than 18 Centimeters.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1977. Issues Raised Concerning the Report, “The National School Lunch Program: Is It Working?” PAD-78-43. Washington, DC: 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

Tsai, Chi-Nan. 2012. “A Simulation Study of Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Clarey, Christopher. 2017. “American Contingent’s Strength Is in Numbers, and Youth.” New York Times, January 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Service 2008; Ostriker and Steinhardt 2003).

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

Two authors: (Ostriker and Steinhardt 2003)
Three authors: (Richardson, Björnmalm, and Caruso 2015)
4 or more authors: (Choi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Accounting History Review
Abbreviation	Acc. Hist. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2155-2851
ISSN (online)	2155-286X
Scope	History General Business, Management and Accounting Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Accounting