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

Sloggett, J. J. (2013). Comment on “Invasive harlequin ladybird carries biological weapons against native competitors.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6152), 1342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, Y., & Wang, J. (2014). Optically-controlled extinction ratio and Q-factor tunable silicon microring resonators based on optical forces. Scientific Reports, 4, 5409.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreira, J. A., Pacheco, J. M., & Santos, F. C. (2013). Evolution of collective action in adaptive social structures. Scientific Reports, 3, 1521.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pereira Morais, M. P., Marshall, D., Flower, S. E., Caunt, C. J., James, T. D., Williams, R. J., Waterfield, N. R., & van den Elsen, J. M. H. (2013). Analysis of protein glycation using fluorescent phenylboronate gel electrophoresis. Scientific Reports, 3, 1437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ratliff, T. A. (2005). The Laboratory Quality Assurance System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nicholas, A. P., & Bhattacharya, S. K. (Eds.). (2014). Protein Deimination in Human Health and Disease. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dong, L., & Chen, K. (2012). Security Analysis of Real World Protocols. In K. Chen (Ed.), Cryptographic Protocol: Security Analysis Based on Trusted Freshness (pp. 153–213). 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

Fang, J. (2014, September 18). Clownfish Undertake Epic Journeys. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nemo-could-have-traveled-400-kilometers-real-life-marlin-wouldnt/

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. (2009). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (GAO-10-93R). 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

Ademiluyi, C. A. (2010). Felony disenfranchisement and how it contributes to the Black electorate [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

Marx, L. (2012, April 1). Nila Do and Joshua Simon. New York Times, ST15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sloggett, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Long & Wang, 2014; Sloggett, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Long & Wang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pereira Morais et al., 2013)

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