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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Accounting Research (JAR). 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

Moore, Pete. “Photocopiers for DNA.” Nature 435 (2005): 237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freiwald, Winrich A., and Doris Y. Tsao. “Functional Compartmentalization and Viewpoint Generalization within the Macaque Face-Processing System.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (2010): 845–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldman, Seth R., Richard H. Ebright, and Bryce E. Nickels. “Direct Detection of Abortive RNA Transcripts in Vivo.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (2009): 927–28.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Milne, G. A., J. L. Davis, J. X. Mitrovica, H. G. Scherneck, J. M. Johansson, M. Vermeer, and H. Koivula. “Space-Geodetic Constraints on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Fennoscandia.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (2001): 2381–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakushevich, Ludmila V. Nonlinear Physics of DNA. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

Badonnel, Rémi, Robert Koch, Aiko Pras, Martin Drašar, and Burkhard Stiller, eds. Management and Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: 10th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2016, Munich, Germany, June 20-23, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9701. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Fan, Gagan Agrawal, and Ruoming Jin. “Query Planning for Searching Inter-Dependent Deep-Web Databases.” In Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 20th International Conference, SSDBM 2008, Hong Kong, China, July 9-11, 2008 Proceedings, edited by Bertram Ludäscher and Nikos Mamoulis, 24–41. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Better Hurricane Observation Techniques Over The Decades Make Big Storms Less Deadly.” IFLScience. IFLScience, 2015. June 3, 2015. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/better-hurricane-observation-techniques-over-decades-make-big-storms-less-deadly/.

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. “Productivity, Science and Technology: Keys to U.S. Economic Growth.” 105610. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Cervantes, Ignacio. “Flexural Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer Plates.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Chechen Issues New Threat.” New York Times, July 20, 2004.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting Research
ISSN (print)	0021-8456
ISSN (online)	1475-679X
Scope