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

Ackert, R. P., Jr. 2003. Glaciology. An ice sheet remembers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5603): 57–58.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, J. R., and P. Simon. 2008. Materials science. Electrochemical capacitors for energy management. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5889): 651–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan, A. D., S. Gandon, and A. Buckling. 2005. The effect of migration on local adaptation in a coevolving host-parasite system. Nature 437 (7056): 253–256.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schliehe, C., B. H. Juarez, M. Pelletier, S. Jander, D. Greshnykh, M. Nagel, A. Meyer, et al. 2010. Ultrathin PbS sheets by two-dimensional oriented attachment. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5991): 550–553.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaughan, D., N. Robinson, N. Lucas, and S. Arulkumaran. 2010. Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Tan, K. C. 2005. Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications. Ed. E. F. Khor and T. H. Lee. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi, S., and H. Zhang. 2012. Policy Perspective on Science Popularization in China. In Science Communication in the World: Practices, Theories and Trends, edited by B. Schiele, M. Claessens, and S. Shi, 81–94. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. 2015. This Video Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/comparing-sizes-sun-earth-and-stars/.

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. 2002. Space Transportation: Challenges Facing NASA’s Space Launch Initiative. 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

Wuebbels, P. J. 2014. Effectiveness of Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum on Middle School Reading Comprehension and Preparation for Common Core State Standards. Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Crow, K. 2002. Dreams Taste Bittersweet As a Small Store Is Sold. New York Times, August 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ackert 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ackert 2003; Miller and Simon 2008).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Simon 2008)
Three or more authors: (Schliehe et al. 2010)

About the journal

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