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

Kahn, C.R., 2008. Medicine. Can we nip obesity in its vascular bud? Science 322, 542–543.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ito, T., Handa, H., 2015. Myeloid disease: Another action of a thalidomide derivative. Nature 523, 167–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, M.-H., Wan, L.-Z., Zhang, Y.-Q., 2014. A novel sodium N-fatty acyl amino acid surfactant using silkworm pupae as stock material. Sci. Rep. 4, 4428.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kwon, Y.T., Kashina, A.S., Davydov, I.V., Hu, R.-G., An, J.Y., Seo, J.W., Du, F., Varshavsky, A., 2002. An essential role of N-terminal arginylation in cardiovascular development. Science 297, 96–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kharmanda, G., El Hami, A., 2016. Reliability in Biomechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Arabnia, H.R., Tran, Q.-N. (Eds.), 2011. Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Stückler, J., Droeschel, D., Gräve, K., Holz, D., Kläß, J., Schreiber, M., Steffens, R., Behnke, S., 2012. Towards Robust Mobility, Flexible Object Manipulation, and Intuitive Multimodal Interaction for Domestic Service Robots, in: Röfer, T., Mayer, N.M., Savage, J., Saranlı, U. (Eds.), RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–62.

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. Researchers Create Thousand Strong Swarm Of Bots That Can Assemble Into Complex Shapes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-create-thousand-strong-swarm-bots-can-assemble-complex-shapes/ (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, 2011. Financial Education and Counseling Pilot Program (No. GAO-11-737R). 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

Etchberger, J.F., 2008. The cis-regulatory logic of gustatory neuron development in Caenorhabditis elegans (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Johnson, G., 2014. Blind as a Bat: A Case of Mind vs. Body. New York Times D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kahn, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Ito and Handa, 2015; Kahn, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Ito and Handa, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kwon et al., 2002)

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