How to format your references using the International Journal of Accounting citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of 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	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

Strasser, B. J. (2003). Who cares about the double helix? Nature, 422(6934), 803–804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mettetal, J. T., & van Oudenaarden, A. (2007). Microbiology. Necessary noise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5837), 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCormick, D. A., Shu, Y., & Yu, Y. (2007). Neurophysiology: Hodgkin and Huxley model--still standing? Nature, 445(7123), E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Eguchi, F. C., Faria, E. F., Scapulatempo Neto, C., Longatto-Filho, A., Zanardo-Oliveira, C., Taboga, S. R., & Campos, S. G. P. (2014). The role of TMPRSS2:ERG in molecular stratification of PCa and its association with tumor aggressiveness: a study in Brazilian patients. Scientific Reports, 4, 5640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt, G. (2013). Experimente rund um die Kunststoffe des Alltags. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Baluška, F., Mancuso, S., & Volkmann, D. (Eds.). (2006). Communication in Plants: Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beldiceanu, N., Katriel, I., & Lorca, X. (2006). Undirected Forest Constraints. In J. C. Beck & B. M. Smith (Eds.), Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: Third International Conference, CPAIOR 2006, Cork, Ireland, May 31 - June 2, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 29–43). 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 International Journal of Accounting.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, May 3). Scientists Transform Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Tissue And Brain Cells. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chemical-cocktail-turns-skin-cells-beating-heart-tissue-and-brain-cells/

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. (1984). Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Oversight of Public Television (AFMD-85-31). 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

Sanabria, A. (2012). Root Metaphor [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, June 27). justices reject campaign limits in vermont case. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strasser, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Mettetal & van Oudenaarden, 2007; Strasser, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Mettetal & van Oudenaarden, 2007)
Three authors: (McCormick et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Eguchi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Accounting
ISSN (print)	0020-7063
Scope