How to format your references using the European Accounting Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Accounting Review (EAR). 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

Fuyuno, I. (2007). Plastic promises. Nature, 446(7137), 715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Paszek, M., & Weaver, V. (2010). Biophysics. Enforcing order on signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5971), 1335–1336.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dandekar, A. A., Chugani, S., & Greenberg, E. P. (2012). Bacterial quorum sensing and metabolic incentives to cooperate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 264–266.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Postberg, F., Khawaja, N., Abel, B., Choblet, G., Glein, C. R., Gudipati, M. S., Henderson, B. L., Hsu, H.-W., Kempf, S., Klenner, F., Moragas-Klostermeyer, G., Magee, B., Nölle, L., Perry, M., Reviol, R., Schmidt, J., Srama, R., Stolz, F., Tobie, G., … Waite, J. H. (2018). Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus. Nature, 558(7711), 564–568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heuer, A. (2012). Der perfekte Tipp. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Schumpelick, V., & Fitzgibbons, R. J. (Eds.). (2007). Recurrent Hernia: Prevention and Treatment. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Siskin, G., & Golzarian, J. (2006). Visceral and Abdominal Solid Organ Trauma. In J. Golzarian, S. Sun, & M. J. Sharafuddin (Eds.), Vascular Embolotherapy: A Comprehensive Approach Volume 2 Oncology, Trauma, Gene Therapy, Vascular Malformations, and Neck (pp. 43–57). 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 European Accounting Review.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, June 21). How To Find An Exoplanet (Part 1). IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-find-an-exoplanet-part-1/

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. (1998). Federal Documents in Languages Other Than English Published and Distributed in Calendar Years 1995-1997 (GGD-98-99R). 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

Pavuluri, V. K. (2014). Field Oriented Control of Induction Motors Based on DSP Controller [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Pilon, M. (2012, July 31). ‘Everyone Wants to See Zara.’ New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Fuyuno, 2007; Paszek & Weaver, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Paszek & Weaver, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Postberg et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Accounting Review
ISSN (print)	0963-8180
ISSN (online)	1468-4497
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