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

Junge, C. (2011). Morbidity: A personal response. Nature, 480(7376), S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lovett, B. W., & Benjamin, S. C. (2009). Comment on “Multipartite entanglement among single spins in diamond.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1169; author reply 1169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harris, G. C., Wimmer, M., & Aston-Jones, G. (2005). A role for lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons in reward seeking. Nature, 437(7058), 556–559.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, W. B., Voitl, T., Rodriguez-Rivera, G. J., & Dumesic, J. A. (2004). Powering fuel cells with CO via aqueous polyoxometalates and gold catalysts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5688), 1280–1283.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanlari, R., & Fard, M. S. (2015). FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Holick, M. F. (Ed.). (2010). Vitamin D: Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Applications. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

López-López, E. A., Hernández-Gallegos, M. A., Cornejo-Mazón, M., & Hernández-Sánchez, H. (2015). Polysaccharide-Based Nanoparticles. In H. Hernández-Sánchez & G. F. Gutiérrez-López (Eds.), Food Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (pp. 59–68). Springer International Publishing.

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

Hamilton, K. (2016, August 24). Girls May Perform Better At School Than Boys – But Their Experience Is Much Less Happy. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/girls-may-perform-better-at-school-than-boys-but-their-experience-is-much-less-happy/

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. (1998). School Technology: Five School Districts’ Experiences in Financing Technology Programs (T-HEHS-98-83). 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

Belflower, K. E. (2012). The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, June 10). Amid Defensive Woes, Mets Try to Avoid Fumbling an Anticipated Call-Up. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Junge, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Junge, 2011; Lovett & Benjamin, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lovett & Benjamin, 2009)
Three authors: (Harris et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Kim et al., 2004)

About the journal

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