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

Thompson, J. N. (2006). Ecology. Mutualistic webs of species. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5772), 372–373.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung, J., & Bonini, N. (2007). CREB-binding protein modulates repeat instability in a Drosophila model for polyQ disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1857–1859.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, J., Shen, L., & Zheng, D. (2014). Association between vitamin C intake and lung cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 4, 6161.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bayindir, M., Sorin, F., Abouraddy, A. F., Viens, J., Hart, S. D., Joannopoulos, J. D., & Fink, Y. (2004). Metal-insulator-semiconductor optoelectronic fibres. Nature, 431(7010), 826–829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darbyshire, P., & Hampton, D. (2014). Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using MATLAB ®. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Benferhat, S., & Grant, J. (Eds.). (2011). Scalable Uncertainty Management: 5th International Conference, SUM 2011, Dayton, OH, USA, October 10-13, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6929). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beckers, G., & Hannula, A. (2013). Deborah Britzman. In J. D. Kirylo (Ed.), A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know (pp. 13–16). SensePublishers.

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

Taub, B. (2016, July 15). Global Ecosystems At Risk Of Failing As Biodiversity Falls Below Safety Limit, Scientists Warn. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-ecosystems-at-risk-of-failing-as-biodiversity-falls-below-safety-limit-scientists-warn/

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. (1992). Information on EEO Discrimination Complaints (GGD-93-6R). 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

Saxena, M. (2010). Learner analysis framework for globalized e-learning [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

David Goodman, J., & Schweber, N. (2015, November 10). Gunman Kills One and Wounds Two Near Penn Station. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thompson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Jung & Bonini, 2007; Thompson, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Jung & Bonini, 2007)
Three authors: (Luo et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Bayindir et al., 2004)

About the journal

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