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

Ruth, T. (2009). Accelerating production of medical isotopes. Nature, 457(7229), 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spero, H. J., & Lea, D. W. (2002). The cause of carbon isotope minimum events on glacial terminations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5567), 522–525.

A journal article with 3 authors

McSween, H. Y., Jr, Taylor, G. J., & Wyatt, M. B. (2009). Elemental composition of the Martian crust. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 736–739.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brady, S. M., Orlando, D. A., Lee, J.-Y., Wang, J. Y., Koch, J., Dinneny, J. R., Mace, D., Ohler, U., & Benfey, P. N. (2007). A high-resolution root spatiotemporal map reveals dominant expression patterns. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5851), 801–806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffney, S., & Francis, C. (2009). Honesty Sells. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Clemente, F. M. (2016). Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis (F. M. L. Martins & R. S. Mendes, Eds.; 1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lacape, J.-M., Loison, R., & Foncéka, D. (2016). Enhanced Drought Adaptation in African Savanna Crops. In E. Torquebiau (Ed.), Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide (pp. 59–71). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 21). British Soldiers Sent To Gabon To Help Tackle Ivory Poaching. 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. (2008). Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain (GAO-08-384). 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

Hasbini, M. A. (2017). The Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash: Why Did So Many Builders Fail? Lessons for the Local Homebuilding Industry [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Almosawa, S., & Hubbard, B. (2016, October 8). Saudi-Led Airstrikes Blamed for Massacre of Scores of Yemeni Mourners. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruth, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ruth, 2009; Spero & Lea, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Spero & Lea, 2002)
Three authors: (McSween et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Brady et al., 2007)

About the journal

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

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