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

Bussières, P. (2014). Estimating the number and size of phloem sieve plate pores using longitudinal views and geometric reconstruction. Scientific Reports, 4, 4929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ketting, R. F., & Plasterk, R. H. (2000). A genetic link between co-suppression and RNA interference in C. elegans. Nature, 404(6775), 296–298.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kassen, R., Llewellyn, M., & Rainey, P. B. (2004). Ecological constraints on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature, 431(7011), 984–988.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kosaka, H., Inagaki, T., Rikitake, Y., Imamura, H., Mitsumori, Y., & Edamatsu, K. (2009). Spin state tomography of optically injected electrons in a semiconductor. Nature, 457(7230), 702–705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thomas, C. G. (2014). Greece. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Perneczky, A. (2008). Keyhole Approaches in Neurosurgery: Volume I Concept and surgical technique (R. Reisch, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gaul, L. (2012). Tutorial Guideline VDI 3830: Damping of Materials and Members. In R. Allemang, J. De Clerck, C. Niezrecki, & J. R. Blough (Eds.), Topics in Modal Analysis I, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2012 (pp. 25–31). 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

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 27). Pear-Shaped Nuclei Explain Lack Of Antimatter And Make Time-Travel Impossible. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1999). Truck Safety: Effectiveness of Motor Carriers Office Hampered by Data Problems and Slow Progress on Implementing Safety Initiatives (T-RCED-99-122). 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

Kim, G. (2013). Development of a nutrition-based curriculum for farm-to-school programs for the fourth and fifth grades [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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar, F., Sophia Chang on, Koblin, J., Nate Schweber in, Lazo, A., & Connecticut, A. S. in. (2006, April 2). That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times, 14NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bussières, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bussières, 2014; Ketting & Plasterk, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Ketting & Plasterk, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Kosaka et al., 2009)

About the journal

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