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

Desplan, C. (2007). Time to pick the fly’s brain. Nature, 450(7167), 173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fu, H., & Cohen, R. E. (2000). Polarization rotation mechanism for ultrahigh electromechanical response in single-crystal piezoelectrics. Nature, 403(6767), 281–283.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goda, K., Tsia, K. K., & Jalali, B. (2009). Serial time-encoded amplified imaging for real-time observation of fast dynamic phenomena. Nature, 458(7242), 1145–1149.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Germain, P., Iyer, J., Zechel, C., & Gronemeyer, H. (2002). Co-regulator recruitment and the mechanism of retinoic acid receptor synergy. Nature, 415(6868), 187–192.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, G. A., & Jackson, P. (2005). Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tixeuil, S., & Herman, T. (Eds.). (2005). Self-Stabilizing Systems: 7th International Symposium, SSS 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 26-27, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3764). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Winzer, T., Malić, E., & Knorr, A. (2013). Graphene Bloch Equations. In R. Egger, D. Matrasulov, & K. Rakhimov (Eds.), Low-Dimensional Functional Materials (pp. 35–61). Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 30). Modern Chemistry Might Have Started A Few Decades Before We Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/modern-chemistry-might-have-started-a-few-decades-before-we-thought/

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. (2011). On-the-Job Training: Federal Highway Administration Needs to Strengthen Program Assessment (GAO-11-703). 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

Beasley, C. A. (2010). Investigations of redox-labeled silica and gold nanoparticles in solution and as films on electrodes [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

LaFORGIA, M., & Eder, S. (2017, May 6). That Neighbor Who Grouses? Now President. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Desplan, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Desplan, 2007; Fu & Cohen, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Fu & Cohen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Germain et al., 2002)

About the journal

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