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

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

Ciufolini, I., 2007. Dragging of inertial frames. Nature 449, 41–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grasset, E.K., Cerutti, A., 2014. Immunology. Retroviral help for B cells. Science 346, 1454–1455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, P.C., Keleshian, A.M., Sachs, F., 2001. Voltage-induced membrane movement. Nature 413, 428–432.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Carrano, A.C., Liu, Z., Dillin, A., Hunter, T., 2009. A conserved ubiquitination pathway determines longevity in response to diet restriction. Nature 460, 396–399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhmer, E., 2015. Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cho, W.C.S. (Ed.), 2012. Acupuncture and Moxibustion as an Evidence-based Therapy for Cancer, Evidence-based Anticancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Coxeter, H.S.M., 2006. An Absolute Property of Four Mutually Tangent Circles, in: Prékopa, A., Molnár, E. (Eds.), Non-Euclidean Geometries: János Bolyai Memorial Volume, Mathematics and Its Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 109–114.

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 Information Systems.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Male and Female Mice Process Pain Differently [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/male-and-female-mice-process-pain-differently/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments (No. AA-97-30(1)). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Funderburk, J., 2010. Modern Variation in Predation Intensity: Constraints on Assessing Predator-Prey Relationships in Paleoecologic Reconstructions (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2016. Darwyn Cooke, Artist With a Retro Approach to Comics, Dies at 53. New York Times B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ciufolini, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ciufolini, 2007; Grasset and Cerutti, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Grasset and Cerutti, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Carrano et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
Abbreviation	Int. J. Acc. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1467-0895
Scope	Accounting Management Information Systems Information Systems and Management Finance