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

Smith, C., 2007. Tools for drug discovery: tools of the trade. Nature 446, 219–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, X., Norell, M.A., 2004. A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture. Nature 431, 838–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siegel, M., Buschman, T.J., Miller, E.K., 2015. Cortical information flow during flexible sensorimotor decisions. Science 348, 1352–1355.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stevens, C.J., Dise, N.B., Mountford, J.O., Gowing, D.J., 2004. Impact of nitrogen deposition on the species richness of grasslands. Science 303, 1876–1879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korn, G.A., 2013. Advanced Dynamic-System Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Benferhat, S., Grant, J. (Eds.), 2011. Scalable Uncertainty Management: 5th International Conference, SUM 2011, Dayton, OH, USA, October 10-13, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Eriksson, N., Strandvik, P., 2009. Possible Determinants Affecting the Use of Mobile Tourism Services, in: Filipe, J., Obaidat, M.S. (Eds.), E-Business and Telecommunications: International Conference, ICETE 2008, Porto, Portugal, July 26-29, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–73.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much? [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, 2015. Internet Protocol Transition: FCC Should Strengthen Its Data Collection Efforts to Assess the Transition’s Effects (No. GAO-16-167). 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

Ekstrom, J.E., 2009. Factors influencing retention in a residential treatment program (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Wilson, D.J., Eligon, J., 2016. Rams’ Departure Is Another Blow to St. Louis Area, and a Chance to Shift Priorities. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2007; Xu and Norell, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Norell, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Stevens et al., 2004)

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

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