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

Mackinnon, R. (2004). Structural biology. Voltage sensor meets lipid membrane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5700), 1304–1305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartek, J., & Lukas, J. (2006). Cell biology. Balancing life-or-death decisions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5797), 261–262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samet, J. M., DeMarini, D. M., & Malling, H. V. (2004). Biomedicine. Do airborne particles induce heritable mutations? Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5673), 971–972.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Reimold, A. M., Iwakoshi, N. N., Manis, J., Vallabhajosyula, P., Szomolanyi-Tsuda, E., Gravallese, E. M., Friend, D., Grusby, M. J., Alt, F., & Glimcher, L. H. (2001). Plasma cell differentiation requires the transcription factor XBP-1. Nature, 412(6844), 300–307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams, A. E. (2011). Immunology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Norton, O. R. (2008). Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites (L. A. Chitwood, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Muroi, S., & Kumamoto, T. (2016). Coseismic Tsunami Simulation Assuming the Displacement of High-Angle Branching Active Faults Identified on the Continental Slope Around the Japan Trench. In K. Kamae (Ed.), Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident (pp. 55–63). Springer Japan.

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

Fang, J. (2015, May 1). Why Do We Age? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1991). Air Traffic Control: Efforts to Modernize Oceanic System Delayed (IMTEC-91-2). 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

Willis, T. Y. (2012). Rare but there: An intersectional exploration of the experiences and outcomes of Black women who studied abroad through community college programs [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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, November 30). Supreme Court Takes Up Global Warming Case. New York Times, A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mackinnon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bartek & Lukas, 2006; Mackinnon, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bartek & Lukas, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Reimold et al., 2001)

About the journal

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