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

deMenocal, P. B. (2011). Anthropology. Climate and human evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6017), 540–542.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellerbroek, B., & Rigaut, F. (2000). Optics adapt to the whole sky. Nature, 403(6765), 25–26.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Muttarak, R., & Striessnig, E. (2014). Environment and development. Universal education is key to enhanced climate adaptation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6213), 1061–1062.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Austin, M. J., Muskett, P., Kahn, K., Feys, B. J., Jones, J. D. G., & Parker, J. E. (2002). Regulatory role of SGT1 in early R gene-mediated plant defenses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562), 2077–2080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernheim, M. L. C. (2008). Ciba Foundation Symposium 39 - Monoamine Oxidase and its Inhibition: Ciba/Monoamine. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shahid, A., Wilkinson, K., Marcu, S., & Shapiro, C. M. (Eds.). (2012). STOP, THAT and One Hundred Other Sleep Scales (1st ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Das, N., Biswas, B., & Khera, R. (2013). Membrane-Bound Complement Regulatory Proteins as Biomarkers and Potential Therapeutic Targets for SLE. In J. D. Lambris, V. M. Holers, & D. Ricklin (Eds.), Complement Therapeutics (pp. 55–81). Springer US.

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

Luntz, S. (2016, September 1). Three Giant Exoplanets Found In Twin Star System. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/three-giant-exoplanets-found-in-twin-star-system/

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. (1988). Educating People at Risk for AIDS (T-PEMD-88-8). 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

Tovar, L. (2009). Perceived life satisfaction of previously undocumented Latino immigrants [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. (2010, August 1). Savoring The Live Action. New York Times, ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (deMenocal, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (deMenocal, 2011; Ellerbroek & Rigaut, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Ellerbroek & Rigaut, 2000)
Three authors: (Lutz et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Austin et al., 2002)

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