How to format your references using the Management Accounting Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Management Accounting Research. 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

Gershon, D., 2004. Probing real-time protein interactions. Nature 432, 249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Volkman, S.K., Hartl, D.L., 2003. Parasitology. A game of cat and mouth. Science 299, 353–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bustamante, C.D., Burchard, E.G., De la Vega, F.M., 2011. Genomics for the world. Nature 475, 163–165.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xie, J., Xu, G., Wang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, F., Li, Y., Han, C., Li, L., 2014. Addition of visual noise boosts evoked potential-based brain-computer interface. Sci. Rep. 4, 4953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yan, S.Y., 2012. Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Fusionopolis Walk, Singapore.

An edited book

Decker, H., Lhotská, L., Link, S., Spies, M., Wagner, R.R. (Eds.), 2014. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 25th International Conference, DEXA 2014, Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014. Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cumming, J.J., Van der Kleij, F.M., 2016. Effective Enactment of Assessment for Learning and Student Diversity in Australia, in: Laveault, D., Allal, L. (Eds.), Assessment for Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Implementation, The Enabling Power of Assessment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 55–73.

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 Management Accounting Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2017. Humans Are Driving A New Burst Of Evolution Including Possibly Our Own [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/humans-are-driving-a-new-burst-of-evolution-including-possibly-our-own/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Administration for Children, Youth, and Families: Need To Better Use Its Research Results and Clarify Its Role (No. HRD-77-76). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shore, L.A., 2014. The anima in animation: Miyazaki heroines and post-patriarchal consciousness (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Film Series. New York Times C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2004; Volkman and Hartl, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Volkman and Hartl, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Management Accounting Research
Abbreviation	Manag. Acc. Res.
ISSN (print)	1044-5005
Scope	Accounting Information Systems and Management Finance