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

Pasachoff, J. M. (2012). Transit of Venus: Last chance to see. Nature, 485(7398), 303–304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hardy, J., & Selkoe, D. J. (2002). The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease: progress and problems on the road to therapeutics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5580), 353–356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ozaki, M., Kato, J.-I., & Kawata, S. (2011). Surface-plasmon holography with white-light illumination. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6026), 218–220.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Taniguchi-Ikeda, M., Kobayashi, K., Kanagawa, M., Yu, C.-C., Mori, K., Oda, T., Kuga, A., Kurahashi, H., Akman, H. O., DiMauro, S., Kaji, R., Yokota, T., Takeda, S., & Toda, T. (2011). Pathogenic exon-trapping by SVA retrotransposon and rescue in Fukuyama muscular dystrophy. Nature, 478(7367), 127–131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heller, D. (2011). Hairspray. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Kirylo, J. D. (Ed.). (2013). A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, L., Mkwawa, I.-H., Jammeh, E., & Ifeachor, E. (2013). Media Transport for VoIP. In I.-H. Mkwawa, E. Jammeh, & E. Ifeachor (Eds.), Guide to Voice and Video over IP: For Fixed and Mobile Networks (pp. 73–100). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, June 15). NASA Astronaut Takes Extraordinary Photographs Of The Great Pyramids. 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. (1982). Education Authority To Charge Student Financial Aid Application Fees (B-206573). 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

Rodriguez, S. G. (2010). Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284 [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

Kinsley, M. (2017, June 17). Trump the Transparent. New York Times, SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pasachoff, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hardy & Selkoe, 2002; Pasachoff, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hardy & Selkoe, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Taniguchi-Ikeda et al., 2011)

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