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

Seeberger, P. H. (2005). Exploring life’s sweet spot. Nature, 437(7063), 1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

King-Jones, K., & Thummel, C. S. (2005). Developmental biology. Less steroids make bigger flies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5748), 630–631.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serizawa, T., Hamada, K.-I., & Akashi, M. (2004). Polymerization within a molecular-scale stereoregular template. Nature, 429(6987), 52–55.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Helenius, J., Ng, D. T. W., Marolda, C. L., Walter, P., Valvano, M. A., & Aebi, M. (2002). Translocation of lipid-linked oligosaccharides across the ER membrane requires Rft1 protein. Nature, 415(6870), 447–450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan, J.-F. (2014). Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 1. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kusuoka, S., & Yamazaki, A. (Eds.). (2007). Advances in Mathematical Economics (Vol. 10). Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Lalanda, P., McCann, J. A., & Diaconescu, A. (2013). The Monitoring Function. In J. A. McCann & A. Diaconescu (Eds.), Autonomic Computing: Principles, Design and Implementation (pp. 129–151). 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 Research in Accounting Regulation.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, October 19). Most People Consume More Calories From Alcohol Than Sugary Drinks. 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. (2014). Small Business Innovation Research: Change in Program Eligibility Has Had Little Impact (GAO-15-68). 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

Smith, J. (2012). The work expectations of individuals with developmental disabilities [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, September 5). Del Potro Shakes an Illness To Reach the Quarterfinals. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seeberger, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (King-Jones & Thummel, 2005; Seeberger, 2005).

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

Two authors: (King-Jones & Thummel, 2005)
Three authors: (Serizawa et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Helenius et al., 2002)

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