How to format your references using the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation. 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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Physical paradoxes. Nature, 424(6949), 705.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palleroni, A., & Hauser, M. (2003). Experience-dependent plasticity for auditory processing in a raptor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5610), 1195.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Hannon, G. J., & Beach, D. H. (2000). Risky immortalization by telomerase. Nature, 405(6788), 755–756.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Han, L., Zi, X., Garmire, L. X., Wu, Y., Weissman, S. M., Pan, X., & Fan, R. (2014). Co-detection and sequencing of genes and transcripts from the same single cells facilitated by a microfluidics platform. Scientific Reports, 4, 6485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein, R. L. (2011). Kinetics of Enzyme Action. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bembenik, R., Skonieczny, Ł., Rybiński, H., Kryszkiewicz, M., & Niezgódka, M. (Eds.). (2014). Intelligent Tools for Building a Scientific Information Platform: From Research to Implementation (Vol. 541). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, H. J., Shim, J. C., Kim, H.-S., Cho, K. S., & Choi, S. G. (2010). An Active Queue Management for QoS Guarantee of the High Priority Service Class. In T.-H. Kim, A. C.-C. Chang, M. Li, C. Rong, C. Z. Patrikakis, & D. Ślęzak (Eds.), Communication and Networking: International Conference, FGCN 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings, Part I (pp. 37–45). 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 International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 19). Human Population Predicted To Reach 12 Billion By 2100. 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. (1992). Motor Vehicle Regulations: Regulatory Cost Estimates Could Be Improved (RCED-92-110). 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

Pyzdrowski, J. E. (2017). Experiences of Advisors/Mentors in Developing Leadership Emergence in a Post Conflict, Marginalized Society: A Phenomenological Study [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Goodman, J. (2016, October 9). The Other 1 Percent. New York Times, BR25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Palleroni & Hauser, 2003; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Palleroni & Hauser, 2003)
Three authors: (Wang et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Han et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation
ISSN (print)	1061-9518
Scope	Accounting Finance