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

Libby, P., 2002. Inflammation in atherosclerosis. Nature 420, 868–874.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ashworth, A.C., Thompson, F.C., 2003. Palaeontology: A fly in the biogeographic ointment. Nature 423, 135–136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayadas, A.F., Bourne, J., Bacsich, P., 2009. Online education today. Science 323, 85–89.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Park, D.-H., Han, C.J., Shul, Y.-G., Choy, J.-H., 2014. Avatar DNA nanohybrid system in chip-on-a-phone. Sci. Rep. 4, 4879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Butler, K.C., 2016. Multinational Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Corchado, J.M., Bajo, J., Kozlak, J., Pawlewski, P., Molina, J.M., Gaudou, B., Julian, V., Unland, R., Lopes, F., Hallenborg, K., García Teodoro, P. (Eds.), 2014. Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection: PAAMS 2014 International Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, June 4-6, 2014. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lampley, A.J., Gross, C.E., Klement, M., Easley, M.E., 2016. Clinical Examination, in: Valderrabano, V., Easley, M. (Eds.), Foot and Ankle Sports Orthopaedics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 39–48.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Four Myths About Allergies You Thought Were True – But Aren’t [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/four-myths-about-allergies-you-thought-were-true-aren-t/ (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, 1989. Actions to Mitigate Aircraft Noise at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (No. T-RCED-90-4). 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

He, H., 2006. Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows in a Pulse Detonation Engine by the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Cooper, M., 2017. Upheaval At Bach Festival. 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 (Libby, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ashworth and Thompson, 2003; Libby, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Ashworth and Thompson, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Park et al., 2014)

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