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

Lovett, R. A. (2000). PLANETARY SCIENCE: “Spiders” Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5486), 1853a–1854a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sung, S., & Amasino, R. M. (2004). Vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by the PHD finger protein VIN3. Nature, 427(6970), 159–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hill, M. S., Hitchcock, P. B., & Pongtavornpinyo, R. (2006). A linear homocatenated compound containing six indium centers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1904–1907.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tran, J. C., Zamdborg, L., Ahlf, D. R., Lee, J. E., Catherman, A. D., Durbin, K. R., Tipton, J. D., Vellaichamy, A., Kellie, J. F., Li, M., Wu, C., Sweet, S. M. M., Early, B. P., Siuti, N., LeDuc, R. D., Compton, P. D., Thomas, P. M., & Kelleher, N. L. (2011). Mapping intact protein isoforms in discovery mode using top-down proteomics. Nature, 480(7376), 254–258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neff, D. J., & Moss, R. C. (2011). The Future of Nonprofits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pearton, S. J. (2006). Gallium Nitride Processing for Electronics, Sensors and Spintronics (C. R. Abernathy & F. Ren, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Spector, B. S., Simpson, P. R., & Leard, C. (2009). Making Lemonade from Lemons: A Road to Leadership for Women in Science Education. In K. C. Wieseman & M. H. Weinburgh (Eds.), Women’s Experiences in Leadership in K-16 Science Education Communities: Becoming and Being (pp. 47–61). 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

Davis, J. (2015, October 28). Indonesia Continues To Burn As Warships Are Put On Standby For Evacuations. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/indonesia-continues-burn-warships-are-put-standby-evacuations/

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. (1972). Reasons for Ending Financial Support to the Dimmitt Independent School District Follow Through Project (B-164031(1)). 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

Ton, N.-Q. (2015). A hierarchical wireless network architecture for building automation and control systems: Implementation and simulation study [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

Crow, K. (2002, September 8). Few Kind Words Are Heard for a Proposed Economic Zone. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lovett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lovett, 2000; Sung & Amasino, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sung & Amasino, 2004)
Three authors: (Hill et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Tran et al., 2011)

About the journal

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