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

Alexander, R.M., 2007. Biophysics. Antennae as gyroscopes. Science 315, 771–772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicholson, J.M., Ioannidis, J.P.A., 2012. Research grants: Conform and be funded. Nature 492, 34–36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gambetta, M.C., Oktaba, K., Müller, J., 2009. Essential role of the glycosyltransferase sxc/Ogt in polycomb repression. Science 325, 93–96.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Venegas, C., Kumar, S., Franklin, B.S., Dierkes, T., Brinkschulte, R., Tejera, D., Vieira-Saecker, A., Schwartz, S., Santarelli, F., Kummer, M.P., Griep, A., Gelpi, E., Beilharz, M., Riedel, D., Golenbock, D.T., Geyer, M., Walter, J., Latz, E., Heneka, M.T., 2017. Microglia-derived ASC specks cross-seed amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 552, 355–361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yoder, C.H., Leber, P.A., Thomsen, M.W., 2010. The Bridge to Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wang, L. (Ed.), 2005. Support Vector Machines: Theory and Applications, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, R., Albert, L.R., 2015. Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Category I: Mathematics Curriculum Knowledge, in: Albert, L.R. (Ed.), Mathematics Teaching and Learning: South Korean Elementary Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 63–76.

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. Doctors Watch The Brain Activity Of A Man As He “Sees God” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/doctors-watch-brain-activity-man-he-sees-god/ (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, 2012. NASA: Significant Challenges Remain for Access, Use, and Sustainment of the International Space Station (No. GAO-12-587T). 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

Hughes, L.L., 2010. The principalship: Preparation programs and the self-efficacy of principals (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

Williams, J., 2017. Zinzi Clemmons. New York Times C18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alexander, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alexander, 2007; Nicholson and Ioannidis, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Nicholson and Ioannidis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Venegas et al., 2017)

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

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