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

Knight, J. (2001). Senators call for biodefence boost. Nature, 413(6855), 441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keene, W. C., & Pszenny, A. A. P. (2004). Comment on “Reactions at interfaces as a source of sulfate formation in sea-salt particles” (I). Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5658), 628; author reply 628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh, S. K., Yamashita, A., & Gouaux, E. (2007). Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters. Nature, 448(7156), 952–956.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zou, L.-N., Cheng, X., Rivers, M. L., Jaeger, H. M., & Nagel, S. R. (2009). The packing of granular polymer chains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 408–410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wind, Y. J., & Hays, C. F. (2015). Beyond Advertising. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pavlov, A. (2008). CMOS SRAM Circuit Design and Parametric Test in Nano-Scaled Technologies: Process-Aware SRAM Design and Test (M. Sachdev, Ed.; Vol. 40). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Olson, J. C., White, P., & Sparrow, L. (2011). Influence of Lesson Study on Teachers’ Mathematics Pedagogy. In L. C. Hart, A. S. Alston, & A. Murata (Eds.), Lesson Study Research and Practice in Mathematics Education: Learning Together (pp. 39–57). 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 British Accounting Review.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 8). First New Antibiotic In 30 Years Could Prove Crucial In Fight Against Superbugs. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/resistance-proof-antibiotic-we-ve-been-waiting/

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. (1975). Food and Drug Administration’s Investigation of Defective Cardiac Pacemakers Recalled by the General Electric Company (MWD-75-71). 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

Carter, C. A. (2008). The Panhellenic Project: Assessing learning engagement using Web 2.0 technologies [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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, February 6). ‘24’ Reboot Has a Dire Ring to It. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Keene & Pszenny, 2004; Knight, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Keene & Pszenny, 2004)
Three authors: (Singh et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Zou et al., 2009)

About the journal

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