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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Accounting, incorporating Advances in International 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Henderson, D. A. (2011). Frank Fenner (1914-2010). Nature, 469(7328), 35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goedert, M., & Spillantini, M. G. (2006). A century of Alzheimer’s disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 777–781.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kraft, N. J. B., Valencia, R., & Ackerly, D. D. (2008). Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5901), 580–582.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bian, Y., Ye, M., Wang, C., Cheng, K., Song, C., Dong, M., Pan, Y., Qin, H., & Zou, H. (2013). Global screening of CK2 kinase substrates by an integrated phosphoproteomics workflow. Scientific Reports, 3, 3460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Hara, B. T., & Malisow, B. (2017). CCSP® (ISC) 2® Certified Cloud Security Professional Official Study Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rischpater, R. (2010). Beginning Nokia Apps Development: Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo (D. Zucker, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, Z., Niemeijer, M., Abràmoff, M. D., Lee, K., & Garvin, M. K. (2010). Automated Segmentation of 3-D Spectral OCT Retinal Blood Vessels by Neural Canal Opening False Positive Suppression. In T. Jiang, N. Navab, J. P. W. Pluim, & M. A. Viergever (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010: 13th International Conference, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 33–40). 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, incorporating Advances in International Accounting.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 26). Baby Sea Turtles Starved Of Oxygen By Beach Microbes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-sea-turtles-starved-oxygen-beach-microbes/

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. (1978). Productivity, Science and Technology: Keys to U.S. Economic Growth (105610). 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

Pearson, R. S. (2008). Relationship Banking in a Competitive Environment With and Without Information Sharing: The Importance of Credit Bureaus in Microfinance [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr., & Rojas, R. (2016, February 7). An Impostor’s Lives and Lies. New York Times, MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Henderson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Goedert & Spillantini, 2006; Henderson, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Goedert & Spillantini, 2006)
Three authors: (Kraft et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Bian et al., 2013)

About the journal

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