How to format your references using the Journal of Accounting Education citation style

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

Becker, T. (2010). Geophysics. Fine-scale modeling of global plate tectonics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5995), 1020–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galitski, V., & Spielman, I. B. (2013). Spin-orbit coupling in quantum gases. Nature, 494(7435), 49–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuthill, P. G., Monnier, J. D., & Danchi, W. C. (2001). A dusty torus around the luminous young star LkH alpha101. Nature, 409(6823), 1012–1014.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fritz, J. H., Rojas, O. L., Simard, N., McCarthy, D. D., Hapfelmeier, S., Rubino, S., Robertson, S. J., Larijani, M., Gosselin, J., Ivanov, I. I., Martin, A., Casellas, R., Philpott, D. J., Girardin, S. E., McCoy, K. D., Macpherson, A. J., Paige, C. J., & Gommerman, J. L. (2011). Acquisition of a multifunctional IgA+ plasma cell phenotype in the gut. Nature, 481(7380), 199–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, S. A., & Hollerton, J. C. (2010). Essential Practical NMR for Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Forte, M., & Campana, S. (Eds.). (2016). Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahlswede, R., Ahlswede, A., Althöfer, I., Deppe, C., & Tamm, U. (2015). On $$\lambda $$ -Capacities and Information Stability. In A. Ahlswede, I. Althöfer, C. Deppe, & U. Tamm (Eds.), Transmitting and Gaining Data: Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 2 (pp. 299–321). Springer International Publishing.

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 Education.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 13). The Giant Rings Of An Exoplanet Are Spinning The Wrong Way Round. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-giant-rings-of-an-exoplanet-are-spinning-the-wrong-way-round/

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. (1974). Review of Certain Aspects of the Head Start Program Operated by the Community Education Extension of Mary Holmes College, Jackson, Mississippi (B-157356). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wilkerson, K. (2010). A comprehensive educational program for male and female teen parents: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Billard, M. (2013, June 6). The Gossip Just Won’t Stop. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Becker, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Becker, 2010; Galitski & Spielman, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Galitski & Spielman, 2013)
Three authors: (Tuthill et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Fritz et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting Education
Abbreviation	J. Acc. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0748-5751
Scope	Accounting Education