How to format your references using the Advances in Accounting citation style

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

Jensen, M. C. (2015). IMMUNOLOGY. Synthetic immunobiology boosts the IQ of T cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6260), 514–515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoppler, S., & Wheeler, G. N. (2015). DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. It’s about time for neural crest. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6241), 1316–1317.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ginzberg, M. B., Kafri, R., & Kirschner, M. (2015). Cell biology. On being the right (cell) size. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6236), 1245075.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pachepsky, E., Crawford, J. W., Bown, J. L., & Squire, G. (2001). Towards a general theory of biodiversity. Nature, 410(6831), 923–926.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raheja, D. G., & Allocco, M. (2006). Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Boca, P., Bowen, J. P., & Siddiqi, J. (Eds.). (2010). Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Y., & Liatsis, P. (2014). An Automated System for 3D Segmentation of CT Angiograms. In F. Rodrigues Leta (Ed.), Visual Computing: Scientific Visualization and Imaging Systems (pp. 99–119). 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 Advances in Accounting.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, April 19). Ancient Grass Preserved in Impact Glass. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-grass-preserved-impact-glass/

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. (2008). Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain (GAO-08-384). 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

Macy, P. (2017). Underachievement in Gifted Students: Understanding Perceptions of Educational Experiences, Attitudes Toward School, and Teacher Training [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Hofmann, P., & Leland, J. (2017, August 11). Urban Pastoral. New York Times, MB7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jensen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hoppler & Wheeler, 2015; Jensen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hoppler & Wheeler, 2015)
Three authors: (Ginzberg et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Pachepsky et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Accounting
Abbreviation	Adv. Acc.
ISSN (print)	0882-6110
Scope	Accounting Finance