How to format your references using the Review of Accounting Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Accounting Studies. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Service, R. F. (2008). Problem solved* (*sort of). Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5890), 784–786.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rees, D. C., & Howard, J. B. (2003). The interface between the biological and inorganic worlds: iron-sulfur metalloclusters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5621), 929–931.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng, J.-K., Philippe, R. N., & Noel, J. P. (2012). The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1667–1670.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Smith, R. R., Killelea, D. R., DelSesto, D. F., & Utz, A. L. (2004). Preference for vibrational over translational energy in a gas-surface reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5673), 992–995.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furmston, M. (2008). Powell-Smith & Furmston’s Building Contract Casebook. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Diamantopoulos, A., Fritz, W., & Hildebrandt, L. (Eds.). (2012). Quantitative Marketing and Marketing Management: Marketing Models and Methods in Theory and Practice. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson, J. B., Beekman, R. H., Martin, G. R., & Lannon, C. (2015). Quality Improvement in Pediatric Cardiology: The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative. In P. R. Barach, J. P. Jacobs, S. E. Lipshultz, & P. C. Laussen (Eds.), Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (pp. 51–67). London: 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 Review of Accounting Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, October 25). Dogs Dream Of You While Cats Dream Of Death. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dogs-dream-of-you-while-cats-dream-of-death/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2004). National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Significant Actions Needed to Address Long-standing Financial Management Problems (No. GAO-04-754T). Washington, DC: 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

Rafibakhsh, N. (2013). Industrial Applications of Microsoft Xbox Kinect Sensor (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2008, December 10). Russian Leaders Attend Patriarch’s Funeral. New York Times, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Rees and Howard 2003; Service 2008).

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

Two authors: (Rees and Howard 2003)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Accounting Studies
Abbreviation	Rev. Acc. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1380-6653
ISSN (online)	1573-7136
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Accounting