How to format your references using the Journal of Accounting and Economics citation style

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

Pratt, S.T., 2014. Ultrafast dynamics. Charge transfer goes the distance. Science 345, 267–268.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ekström, G., Stark, C.P., 2013. Simple scaling of catastrophic landslide dynamics. Science 339, 1416–1419.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murphy, G.E., Leadbetter, J.R., Jensen, G.J., 2006. In situ structure of the complete Treponema primitia flagellar motor. Nature 442, 1062–1064.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hilgenkamp, H., Ariando, Smilde, H.-J.H., Blank, D.H.A., Rijnders, G., Rogalla, H., Kirtley, J.R., Tsuei, C.C., 2003. Ordering and manipulation of the magnetic moments in large-scale superconducting pi-loop arrays. Nature 422, 50–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Juhnke, G.A., Granello, D.H., Granello, P.F., 2010. Suicide, Self-Injury, and Violence in the Schools. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., Moreno, E.D. (Eds.), 2010. Transactions on Computational Science XI: Special Issue on Security in Computing, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Girbau, J., Bruna, L., 2010. Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Equation, General Concepts, in: Bruna, L. (Ed.), Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Field Equation, Progress in Mathematical Physics. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 109–128.

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 Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Mummification Started More Than A Millennium Earlier Than We Thought [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/mummification-started-more-millennium-earlier-we-thought/ (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, 2006. NASA: Long-Term Commitment to and Investment in Space Exploration Program Requires More Knowledge (No. GAO-06-817R). 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

Greenfield, D., 2017. Beyond Super Heroes and Talking Animals: Social Justice in Graphic Novels in Education (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2017. Hedge Fund Sues to Have Puerto Rico’s Bankruptcy Case Thrown Out. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pratt, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ekström and Stark, 2013; Pratt, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ekström and Stark, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hilgenkamp et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting and Economics
Abbreviation	J. Account. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0165-4101
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance