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

Brody, H. (2015). Biomaterials. Nature, 519(7544), S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacob, L., & Lum, L. (2007). Deconstructing the hedgehog pathway in development and disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5847), 66–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfeiffer, T., Schuster, S., & Bonhoeffer, S. (2001). Cooperation and competition in the evolution of ATP-producing pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5516), 504–507.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sung, N. S., Gordon, J. I., Rose, G. D., Getzoff, E. D., Kron, S. J., Mumford, D., Onuchic, J. N., Scherer, N. F., Sumners, D. L., & Kopell, N. J. (2003). Science education. Educating future scientists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitra, A. (2008). Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

A, K. M. A., & Clark, O. H. (Eds.). (2012). Handbook of Parathyroid Diseases: A Case-Based Practical Guide. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Wust, J., Grund, M., & Plattner, H. (2015). Dynamic Query Prioritization for In-Memory Databases. In A. Jagatheesan, J. Levandoski, T. Neumann, & A. Pavlo (Eds.), In Memory Data Management and Analysis: First and Second International Workshops, IMDM 2013, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 26, 2013, IMDM 2014, Hongzhou, China, September 1, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 56–68). 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, incorporating Advances in International Accounting.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 10). The Most Incredible Microscope Images Of 2016 Reveal A Beautiful, Hidden Universe. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-most-incredible-microscope-images-of-2016-reveal-a-beautiful-hidden-universe/

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. (1993). Department of Education: Long-Standing Management Problems Hamper Reforms (HRD-93-47). 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

Huffer, D. J. (2013). A spatial analysis and zooarchaeological interpretation of archaeological bison remains in the Southwest and the wildlife management implications for the House Rock Valley bison herd in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2017, March 2). On Creating Black Superheroes. New York Times, D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2015; Jacob & Lum, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Jacob & Lum, 2007)
Three authors: (Pfeiffer et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Sung et al., 2003)

About the journal

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