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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Accounting Literature. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Trevan, T. (2015). Biological research: Rethink biosafety. Nature, 527(7577), 155–158.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silver, R. A., & Kanichay, R. T. (2008). Neuroscience. Refreshing connections. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5873), 183–184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayward, R. C., Saville, D. A., & Aksay, I. A. (2000). Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns. Nature, 404(6773), 56–59.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dimitrov, A., Quesnoit, M., Moutel, S., Cantaloube, I., Poüs, C., & Perez, F. (2008). Detection of GTP-tubulin conformation in vivo reveals a role for GTP remnants in microtubule rescues. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5906), 1353–1356.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fant, K. M. (2005). Logically Determined Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huang, Y. (2014). Geo-disaster Modeling and Analysis: An SPH-based Approach (Z. Dai & W. Zhang, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chiorean, D., Petraşcu, V., & Ober, I. (2012). Using Constraints in Teaching Software Modeling. In J. Kienzle (Ed.), Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MODELS 2011, Wellington, New Zealand, October 16-21, 2011, Reports and Revised Selected Papers (pp. 25–39). 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 Literature.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 21). How Shrimp Farming Wreaked Havoc On Sri Lanka’s Coasts. 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. (1998). Social Security Administration: Software Development Process Improvements Started But Work Remains (AIMD-98-39). 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

Wansapura, A. N. (2010). The role of alpha sodium,potassium-ATPase isoforms in mediating cardiac hypertrophy in response to endogenous cardiotonic steroids [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, October 2). Puerto Rico Development Bank Goes to Court for $400 Million in Taxes. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trevan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Silver & Kanichay, 2008; Trevan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Silver & Kanichay, 2008)
Three authors: (Hayward et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Dimitrov et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting Literature
Abbreviation	J. Acc. Lit.
ISSN (print)	0737-4607
Scope