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

Schwille, P. (2011). Bottom-up synthetic biology: engineering in a tinkerer’s world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1252–1254.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gillson, L., & Hoffman, M. T. (2007). Ecology. Rangeland ecology in a changing world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5808), 53–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vidale, J. E., Dodge, D. A., & Earle, P. S. (2000). Slow differential rotation of the Earth’s inner core indicated by temporal changes in scattering. Nature, 405(6785), 445–448.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Trauger, J. W., Kohli, R. M., Mootz, H. D., Marahiel, M. A., & Walsh, C. T. (2000). Peptide cyclization catalysed by the thioesterase domain of tyrocidine synthetase. Nature, 407(6801), 215–218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Santamarina, J. C., & Fratta, D. (2006). Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Liu, X. (2013). Temperature and Humidity Independent Control (THIC) of Air-conditioning System (Y. Jiang & T. Zhang, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hekkala, R., Heiskanen, A., & Rossi, M. (2015). The Role of Social Capital as Antecedent in Clan Formation in Information Systems Outsourcing Project. In I. Oshri, J. Kotlarsky, & L. P. Willcocks (Eds.), Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices: 9th Global Sourcing Workshop 2015, La Thuile, Italy, February 18-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 83–99). 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 International Journal of Accounting.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 31). This Basketball Is Thrown From Above The Clouds And The Magnus Effect Makes It Do Something Pretty Awesome. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/basketball-thrown-cliff-and-magnus-effect-makes-it-do-something-special/

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. (1974). Efforts To Stop Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Coming From and Through Mexico and Central America (GGD-75-44). 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

Crawford, J. D. (2017). Teacher Job Satisfaction as Related to Student Performance on State-Mandated Testing [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, May 13). Is ‘As the [Trump] World Turns’ at ‘The Edge of Night’? New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schwille, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gillson & Hoffman, 2007; Schwille, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gillson & Hoffman, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Trauger et al., 2000)

About the journal

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