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

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

Greene, M. (2001). A tool, not a tyrant. Nature, 410(6831), 875.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohatgi, R., & Scott, M. P. (2008). Cell biology. Arrestin’ movement in cilia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5884), 1726–1727.

A journal article with 3 authors

Audouze, K., Brunak, S., & Grandjean, P. (2013). A computational approach to chemical etiologies of diabetes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2712.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Deechongkit, S., Nguyen, H., Powers, E. T., Dawson, P. E., Gruebele, M., & Kelly, J. W. (2004). Context-dependent contributions of backbone hydrogen bonding to beta-sheet folding energetics. Nature, 430(6995), 101–105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh, J. H., & Castet, J.-F. (2011). Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kärkkäinen, J., & Stoye, J. (Eds.). (2012). Combinatorial Pattern Matching: 23rd Annual Symposium, CPM 2012, Helsinki, Finland, July 3-5, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7354). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Formenti, E. (2013). A Survey on m-Asynchronous Cellular Automata. In J. Kari, M. Kutrib, & A. Malcher (Eds.), Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems: 19th International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2013, Gießen, Germany, September 17-19, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 46–66). 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 British Accounting Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 10). New Synthetic Platelets Capable Of Rapidly Stopping Bleeding. 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. (2015). Screening Partnership Program: Improved Cost Estimates Can Enhance Program Decision Making (GAO-16-115T). 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

Garatli, A. A. (2014). What are the necessary skills for leading an online business in Saudi Arabia? [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Firer, S. (2017, February 17). Repetition Works for the Moon. New York Times, MM15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greene, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Greene, 2001; Rohatgi & Scott, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Rohatgi & Scott, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Deechongkit et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The British Accounting Review
ISSN (print)	0890-8389
Scope	Accounting