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

Nestler, E.J., 2012. Epigenetics: Stress makes its molecular mark. Nature 490, 171–172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schadt, C.W., Rosling, A., 2015. FUNGAL BIOGEOGRAPHY. Comment on “Global diversity and geography of soil fungi.” Science 348, 1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pool, J.A., Lobkovsky, E., Chirik, P.J., 2004. Hydrogenation and cleavage of dinitrogen to ammonia with a zirconium complex. Nature 427, 527–530.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ellis, D.A., Mabury, S.A., Martin, J.W., Muir, D.C., 2001. Thermolysis of fluoropolymers as a potential source of halogenated organic acids in the environment. Nature 412, 321–324.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

d’Andria, A., Gabarret, I., 2017. Building 21st Century Entrepreneurship. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Shishkov, B. (Ed.), 2016. Business Modeling and Software Design: 5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, Q., Su, L., Li, Q., Xu, X., 2005. Cooperative Target Localization Method for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, in: Lu, X., Zhao, W. (Eds.), Networking and Mobile Computing: Third International Conference, ICCNMC 2005, Zhangjiajie, China, August 2-4, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 13–22.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. New Study Suggests Viruses Are Alive, And That They Share An Ancestor With Modern Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1996. D.C. Emergency Highway Relief Act (No. RCED-96-196R). 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

Arab, A.A., 2012. Finite Element Modeling of Pretensioned Concrete Girders: A Methodological Approach with Applications in Large Strands and End Zone Cracking (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Brantley, B., 2015. Fluid and Complicated Couplings. 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 (Nestler, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Nestler, 2012; Schadt and Rosling, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schadt and Rosling, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ellis et al., 2001)

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