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

Kiessling, W. (2006). Paleoecology. Life’s complexity cast in stone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5803), 1254–1255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schulz, C., & Rehling, P. (2014). Cell biology. Powering the cell cycle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6213), 1059–1060.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meier, P., Finch, A., & Evan, G. (2000). Apoptosis in development. Nature, 407(6805), 796–801.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, Y., O’Connell, R., Maguire, P., & Zhang, H. (2014). High throughput secondary electron imaging of organic residues on a graphene surface. Scientific Reports, 4, 7032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, M. (2011). Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Potter, G. B. (2015). A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders: Responsible Adult Culture (J. C. Gibbs, M. Robbins, & P. E. Langdon, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mal, S., & Singh, R. B. (2014). Land Use and Cover Change. In R. B. Singh & R. Hietala (Eds.), Livelihood Security in Northwestern Himalaya: Case Studies from Changing Socio-economic Environments in Himachal Pradesh, India (pp. 41–51). Springer Japan.

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, October 12). Four Wildlife Rangers Murdered By Poachers. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/poachers-kill-rangers-protecting-wild-elephants/

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). Public-Private Competitions: Access to Records Is Inhibiting Work on Congressional Mandates (T-NSIAD-98-101). 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

San, K. A. (2017). Synthesis of Alkanethiolate-Capped Metal Nanoparticles Using Alkyl Thiosulfate Ligand Precursors for Selective Catalytic Reactions [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Shear, M. D. (2017, September 5). Democratic Coalition Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Over Health Care Law. 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 (Kiessling, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kiessling, 2006; Schulz & Rehling, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Schulz & Rehling, 2014)
Three authors: (Meier et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

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