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

Cornet, F. H. (2015). SEISMOLOGY. Earthquakes induced by fluid injections. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1204–1205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rouse, J., & Jackson, S. P. (2002). Interfaces between the detection, signaling, and repair of DNA damage. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5581), 547–551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wagner, P. J., Kosnik, M. A., & Lidgard, S. (2006). Abundance distributions imply elevated complexity of post-Paleozoic marine ecosystems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5803), 1289–1292.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cheng, H.-C., Skehan, B. M., Campellone, K. G., Leong, J. M., & Rosen, M. K. (2008). Structural mechanism of WASP activation by the enterohaemorrhagic E. coli effector EspF(U). Nature, 454(7207), 1009–1013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, R., & Gutiérrez-Albilla, J. D. (2013). A Companion to Luis Buñuel. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Yahav, E. (Ed.). (2014). Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 10th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2014, Haifa, Israel, November 18-20, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8855). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Abbasi, S., Manteghi, S., Heidarzadegan, A., Nemati, Y., & Parvin, H. (2015). A Robust Clustering via Swarm Intelligence. In O. Gervasi, B. Murgante, S. Misra, M. L. Gavrilova, A. M. A. C. Rocha, C. Torre, D. Taniar, & B. O. Apduhan (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015: 15th International Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 55–70). 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

Fang, J. (2015, June 8). Woman Receives 3D Printed Titanium Skull Implant. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/young-woman-receives-3d-printed-titanium-skull-implant/

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). DOD Service Academies: Academy Preparatory Schools Need a Clearer Mission and Better Oversight (NSIAD-92-57). 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

Walker, M. (2009). Industry - higher education partnerships: A case study analysis of learning together [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, July 11). It’s O.K. To Skip A Season. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cornet, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cornet, 2015; Rouse & Jackson, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rouse & Jackson, 2002)
Three authors: (Wagner et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Cheng et al., 2008)

About the journal

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

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