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

Pendry, J. B. (2007). Physics. Negative refraction for electrons? Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5816), 1226–1227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vermot, J., & Pourquié, O. (2005). Retinoic acid coordinates somitogenesis and left-right patterning in vertebrate embryos. Nature, 435(7039), 215–220.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Jong, T., Linn, M. C., & Zacharia, Z. C. (2013). Physical and virtual laboratories in science and engineering education. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6130), 305–308.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, Y., Latremoliere, A., Li, X., Zhang, Z., Chen, M., Wang, X., et al. (2018). Touch and tactile neuropathic pain sensitivity are set by corticospinal projections. Nature, 561(7724), 547–550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vallin, R. W. (2013). The Elements of Cantor Sets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Xi, B. (2016). Optimization of Solid Waste Conversion Process and Risk Control of Groundwater Pollution. (Y. Jiang, M. Li, Y. Yang, & C. Huang, Eds.) (1st ed. 2016.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miseres, V. (2015). “The Personal is Political.” In L. Gómez, A. Horno-Delgado, M. K. Long, & N. Silleras-Fernández (Eds.), Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures (pp. 57–79). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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

Luntz, S. (2017, March 6). Young Stars In Old Clusters Challenge One Of Astronomy’s Certainties. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/young-stars-in-old-clusters-challenge-one-of-astronomys-certainties/. 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. (2017). Maritime Environment: Federal and State Actions, Expenditures, and Challenges to Addressing Abandoned and Derelict Vessels (No. GAO-17-202). 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

Kinney, C. E. (2009). Realtime controller tuning for periodic disturbance rejection with application to active noise control (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, April 6). Fans Voice Frustration, But Mets Leave It Behind. New York Times, p. B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pendry 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Pendry 2007; Vermot and Pourquié 2005).

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

Two authors: (Vermot and Pourquié 2005)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2018)

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