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

Lundstrom, M. (2003). Applied physics. Moore’s law forever? Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5604), 210–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, E., & Marone, C. (2008). Geophysics. What triggers tremor? Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 166–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biswas, A. K., Atulasimha, J., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2014). An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product. Scientific Reports, 4, 7553.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

He, X., Mishchuk, D. O., Shah, J., Weimer, B. C., & Slupsky, C. M. (2013). Cross-talk between E. coli strains and a human colorectal adenocarcinoma-derived cell line. Scientific Reports, 3, 3416.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larrieu, N., & Varet, A. (2014). Rapid Prototyping of Software for Avionics Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Samarati, P. (Ed.). (2015). Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXIX: 29th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference, DBSec 2015, Fairfax, VA, USA, July 13-15, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 9149). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jackson, E. K., & Schulte, W. (2013). FORMULA 2.0: A Language for Formal Specifications. In Z. Liu, J. Woodcock, & H. Zhu (Eds.), Unifying Theories of Programming and Formal Engineering Methods: International Training School on Software Engineering, Held at ICTAC 2013, Shanghai, China, August 26-30, 2013, Advanced Lectures (pp. 156–206). Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2017, January 9). New Theory That Many Collisions, Not One, Formed The Moon. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-theory-that-many-collisions-not-one-formed-the-moon/

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. (1985). Commercializing Landsat and the Weather Satellites (126473). 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

Beck, R. E. (2012). Examining the relationship between self-initiated expatriation and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriate spouses within nonprofit organizations: A quantitative causal-comparative study [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Crow, K. (2000, July 23). At This Park, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Bench. New York Times, 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lundstrom, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lundstrom, 2003; Richardson & Marone, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Richardson & Marone, 2008)
Three authors: (Biswas et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (He et al., 2013)

About the journal

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