How to format your references using the The Accounting Review citation style

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

Nebel, C. E. 2007. Chemistry. Surface-conducting diamond. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5855): 1391–1392.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arnqvist, G., and L. Rowe. 2002. Antagonistic coevolution between the sexes in a group of insects. Nature 415 (6873): 787–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo, G., W. Wang, and A. Bradley. 2004. Mismatch repair genes identified using genetic screens in Blm-deficient embryonic stem cells. Nature 429 (6994): 891–895.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wu, H., S. B. Kanatous, F. A. Thurmond, T. Gallardo, E. Isotani, R. Bassel-Duby, and R. S. Williams. 2002. Regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle by CaMK. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5566): 349–352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vassiliou, P.-C. G. 2013. Discrete-time Asset Pricing Models in Applied Stochastic Finance. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bussmann-Holder, Annette, and Hugo Keller, eds. 2007. High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Popescu, E., and D. Cioiu. 2011. eMUSE - Integrating Web 2.0 Tools in a Social Learning Environment. In Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2011: 10th International Conference, Hong Kong, China, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings, edited by H. Leung, E. Popescu, Y. Cao, R. W. H. Lau, and W. Nejdl, 41–50. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 The Accounting Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Watch Sulfuric Acid Melt A Kitchen Sponge in Slow Motion! IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/watch-sulfuric-acid-melt-kitchen-sponge-slow-motion/.

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. 1999. Telecommunications: Overview of the Cramming Problem. 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

Rich, D. W. 2009. Examining the relationship of values-based management in performance evaluations. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Marx, L. 2015. Designing a Lasting Partnership. New York Times, July 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nebel 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Nebel 2007; Arnqvist and Rowe 2002).

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

Two authors: (Arnqvist and Rowe 2002)
Three authors: (Guo, Wang, and Bradley 2004)
6 or more authors: (Wu et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Accounting Review
ISSN (print)	0001-4826
ISSN (online)	1558-7967
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance