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

Fitter, A., 2003. Ecology. Making allelopathy respectable. Science 301, 1337–1338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pennycook, S.J., Kalinin, S.V., 2014. Microscopy: Hasten high resolution. Nature 515, 487–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidel, H.S., Rockman, M.V., Kruglyak, L., 2008. Widespread genetic incompatibility in C. elegans maintained by balancing selection. Science 319, 589–594.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cheng, H.-B., Zhang, Y.-M., Xu, C., Liu, Y., 2014. Photoresponsive supramolecular complexes as efficient DNA regulator. Sci. Rep. 4, 4210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman, R.L., 2005. Telecommunication System Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gamerschlag, T., Gerland, D., Osswald, R., Petersen, W. (Eds.), 2014. Frames and Concept Types: Applications in Language and Philosophy, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Scherzer, O., Grasmair, M., Grossauer, H., Haltmeier, M., Lenzen, F., 2009. Convex Regularization Methods for Denoising, in: Grasmair, M., Grossauer, H., Haltmeier, M., Lenzen, F. (Eds.), Variational Methods in Imaging, Applied Mathematical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 115–158.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Burning All Our Fossil Fuels Will Scorch The Earth And Obliterate The Arctic [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/burning-all-our-fossil-fuels-will-scorch-earth-and-obliterate-arctic/ (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, 2008. Safe Routes to School: Progress in Implementing the Program, but a Comprehensive Plan to Evaluate Program Outcomes Is Needed (No. GAO-08-789). 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

Robinson, D.E., 2010. How personality traits and job satisfaction influence service quality in housing agencies (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kaplan, T., Shear, M.D., 2017. As Conservatives Grouse, House Passes Disaster Aid and Debt Limit Package. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fitter, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fitter, 2003; Pennycook and Kalinin, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pennycook and Kalinin, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cheng 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