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

Inan, U. (2005). Atmospheric science. Gamma rays made on Earth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1054–1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sesma, A., & Osbourn, A. E. (2004). The rice leaf blast pathogen undergoes developmental processes typical of root-infecting fungi. Nature, 431(7008), 582–586.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, W. K. W., Harrison, W. G., & Head, E. J. H. (2006). Coherent sign switching in multiyear trends of microbial plankton. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5764), 1157–1160.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Artsimovitch, I., Chu, C., Lynch, A. S., & Landick, R. (2003). A new class of bacterial RNA polymerase inhibitor affects nucleotide addition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5645), 650–654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jamison, D. C. (2005). Perl Programming for Biologists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Han, W.-S., Lee, M. L., Muliantara, A., Sanjaya, N. A., Thalheim, B., & Zhou, S. (Eds.). (2014). Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 19th International Conference, DASFAA 2014, International Workshops: BDMA, DaMEN, SIM³, UnCrowd; Bali, Indonesia, April 21--24, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8505). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Howe, J. R., & Calva, D. (2010). Basic Sciences and Genetics: Hamartomatous Polyposis. In M. A. Rodriguez-Bigas, R. Cutait, P. M. Lynch, I. Tomlinson, & H. F. A. Vasen (Eds.), Hereditary Colorectal Cancer (pp. 87–109). Springer US.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, November 9). What The Hell Is This Bizarre Looking “Alien” Creature? 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. (1990). Customs Automation: Weakness in Revenue Collection at John F. Kennedy International Airport (IMTEC-90-16). 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

Amodeo, G. A. (2009). Structural and biochemical characterization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae AMPK homolog SNF1 [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Saslow, L. (2008, February 10). Other School Districts Offered State Intervention. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Inan, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Inan, 2005; Sesma & Osbourn, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sesma & Osbourn, 2004)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Artsimovitch et al., 2003)

About the journal

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

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