How to format your references using the Accounting, Organizations and Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounting, Organizations and Society. 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

Bürgmann, R. (2015). GEOPHYSICS. Weak subduction makes great quakes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6253), 1162–1163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teruel, M. N., & Meyer, T. (2002). Parallel single-cell monitoring of receptor-triggered membrane translocation of a calcium-sensing protein module. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5561), 1910–1912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irie, M., Kobatake, S., & Horichi, M. (2001). Reversible surface morphology changes of a photochromic diarylethene single crystal by photoirradiation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5509), 1769–1772.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Doiron, B., Chacron, M. J., Maler, L., Longtin, A., & Bastian, J. (2003). Inhibitory feedback required for network oscillatory responses to communication but not prey stimuli. Nature, 421(6922), 539–543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furger, C. (2016). Live Cell Assays. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., & Apduhan, B. O. (Eds.). (2010). Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV (Vol. 6019). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Moore, G. J., Puglia, F. J., & Gulbinska, M. K. (2014). Lithium-ion Cells for High-End Applications. In M. K. Gulbinska (Ed.), Lithium-ion Battery Materials and Engineering: Current Topics and Problems from the Manufacturing Perspective (pp. 89–113). 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, Organizations and Society.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, April 4). Dumb Bumblebees Are Better Workers. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dumb-bumblebees-are-better-workers/

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. (1976). Proposed Revision to Armed Services Procurement Regulation for Cost Principles on Independent Research and Development Costs (B-164912). 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

Terrell, N. D. (2012). Exact solutions to combinatorial optimizations and the traveling baseball fan problem [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

Gustines, G. G. (2014, June 23). Leaping From Marvel to DC in a Single Bound. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bürgmann, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bürgmann, 2015; Teruel & Meyer, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Teruel & Meyer, 2002)
Three authors: (Irie et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Doiron et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Accounting, Organizations and Society
ISSN (print)	0361-3682
Scope	Accounting Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Information Systems and Management Sociology and Political Science