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

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

McDowell, J.M., 2011. Plant science. Beleaguered immunity. Science 334, 1354–1355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fedorka, K.M., Mousseau, T.A., 2004. Female mating bias results in conflicting sex-specific offspring fitness. Nature 429, 65–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chisari, F.V., Mason, W.S., Seeger, C., 2014. Virology. Comment on “Specific and nonhepatotoxic degradation of nuclear hepatitis B virus cccDNA.” Science 344, 1237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choy, S.H., Al-Mekhlafi, H.M., Mahdy, M.A.K., Nasr, N.N., Sulaiman, M., Lim, Y.A.L., Surin, J., 2014. Prevalence and associated risk factors of Giardia infection among indigenous communities in rural Malaysia. Sci. Rep. 4, 6909.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1995. Guidelines for Process Safety Documentation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Barral, J., Seuret, S. (Eds.), 2010. Recent Developments in Fractals and Related Fields, Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Hartline, J., Sharp, A., 2006. An Incremental Model for Combinatorial Maximization Problems, in: Àlvarez, C., Serna, M. (Eds.), Experimental Algorithms: 5th International Workshop, WEA 2006, Cala Galdana, Menorca, Spain, May 24-27, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–48.

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 Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Why You Should Always Order The Bigger Pizza, According To Mathematics [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-you-should-always-order-the-bigger-pizza-according-to-mathematics/ (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. Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Complete Recent Efforts to Develop Policies and Procedures to Guide Requirements Development and Management (No. GAO-06-310). 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

Green, J.L., 2012. The leadership practices of executive women of local government (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

David Goodman, J., 2015. Tears and Anger in Queens After Mother Loses Another Son to Violence. New York Times A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McDowell, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fedorka and Mousseau, 2004; McDowell, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Fedorka and Mousseau, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Choy et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Abbreviation	J. Account. Public Policy
ISSN (print)	0278-4254
Scope	Accounting Sociology and Political Science