How to format your references using the Research in Accounting Regulation citation style

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

Bensaude-Vincent, B. (2001). Chemical analysis. Nature, 410(6827), 415.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baxter, G. W., & Olafsen, J. S. (2003). Kinetics: Gaussian statistics in granular gases. Nature, 425(6959), 680.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miake, J., Marbán, E., & Nuss, H. B. (2002). Biological pacemaker created by gene transfer. Nature, 419(6903), 132–133.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Stone, M. B., Bernstein, D. P., Barry, R., Pelc, M. D., Tsui, Y.-K., & Schiffer, P. (2004). Stress propagation: getting to the bottom of a granular medium. Nature, 427(6974), 503–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Utas, G. (2006). Robust Communications Software. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Marriott, N. G. (2008). Sanificazione nell’industria alimentare (R. B. Gravani, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Goerzen, C., Kong, Z., & Mettler, B. (2010). A Survey of Motion Planning Algorithms from the Perspective of Autonomous UAV Guidance. In K. P. Valavanis, R. Beard, P. Oh, A. Ollero, L. A. Piegl, & H. Shim (Eds.), Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. June 8–10, 2009 (pp. 65–100). 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 Research in Accounting Regulation.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, January 26). Human-Pig Chimera Embryos Have Been Created. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humanpig-chimera-embryos-have-been-created/

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. (1974). Need for a National Weather Modification Reseach Program (B-133202). 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

Bathon, J. M. (2008). Examining the characteristics of school leaders and of local schools where Indiana educational leadership preparation programs place their graduates [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Billard, M. (2010, July 29). A Bag That Says ‘Beach Day!’ New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bensaude-Vincent, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Baxter & Olafsen, 2003; Bensaude-Vincent, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Baxter & Olafsen, 2003)
Three authors: (Miake et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Stone et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Accounting Regulation
Abbreviation	Res. Acc. Regul.
ISSN (print)	1052-0457
Scope	Accounting Finance Sociology and Political Science