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

Chien, K. R. (2013). Regenerative biology: heartbroken embryos heal. Nature, 498(7455), 439–440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hilf, R. J. C., & Dutzler, R. (2009). Structure of a potentially open state of a proton-activated pentameric ligand-gated ion channel. Nature, 457(7225), 115–118.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S.-Y., Hakoshima, T., & Kitano, K. (2013). Structure of the RecQ C-terminal domain of human Bloom syndrome protein. Scientific Reports, 3, 3294.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clark, P. U., Mitrovica, J. X., Milne, G. A., & Tamisiea, M. E. (2002). Sea-level fingerprinting as a direct test for the source of global meltwater pulse IA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5564), 2438–2441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdullaeva, Z. (2017). Nano- and Biomaterials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Buarque, F., Gelbukh, A., Das, S., & Engelbrecht, A. (Eds.). (2015). Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence: 6th International Conference, ICSI 2015 held in conjunction with the Second BRICS Congress, CCI 2015, Beijing, June 25-28, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 9141). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Agrawal, A., & Gopal, K. (2013). Challenges of Fish Diversity in Polluted Water. In K. Gopal (Ed.), Biomonitoring of Water and Waste Water (pp. 49–57). Springer India.

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

Hale, T. (2016, December 6). A Shellfish Species Used To Dye Ancient Royal Robes Has Disappeared From The Mediterranean. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-shellfish-species-used-to-dye-ancient-royal-robes-has-disappeared-from-the-mediterranean/

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. (1973). Contracts Awarded to Aero Spacelines, Inc., for Airlift Outsized Cargo (B-146804). 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

Prosky, J. (2012). Meisner and the problem of character [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

Wagner, J. (2017, August 26). Leg Injury May End Season for Cespedes. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chien, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Chien, 2013; Hilf & Dutzler, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hilf & Dutzler, 2009)
Three authors: (Kim et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Clark et al., 2002)

About the journal

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