How to format your references using the Accounting Forum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounting Forum. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Benford, G. (2001). Where might it lead? Nature, 414(6862), 399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raymo, M. E., & Mitrovica, J. X. (2012). Collapse of polar ice sheets during the stage 11 interglacial. Nature, 483(7390), 453–456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghimire, A., Shafran, E., & Gerton, J. M. (2014). Using a sharp metal tip to control the polarization and direction of emission from a quantum dot. Scientific Reports, 4, 6456.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, Z., Benoit, G., Liu, J., Prasad, S., Aarnisalo, P., Liu, X., Xu, H., Walker, N. P. C., & Perlmann, T. (2003). Structure and function of Nurr1 identifies a class of ligand-independent nuclear receptors. Nature, 423(6939), 555–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou, C. (2010). Design and Analysis of Composite Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sergienko, I. V. (2014). Optimization Models in a Transition Economy (M. Mikhalevich & L. Koshlai, Eds.; Vol. 101). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Howard, B., & Yang, T. (2012). The Main Results. In T. Yang (Ed.), Intersections of Hirzebruch–Zagier Divisors and CM Cycles (pp. 65–84). 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 Accounting Forum.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 7). Finland To Bury Its Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/finland-to-bury-its-nuclear-waste-for-100000-years/

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. (1980). Triennial Assessment of the Tennessee Valley Authority--Fiscal Years 1977-1979 (EMD-80-91). 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

Jansson, A. (2017). Stratigraphy, Landscape Evolution, and Past Environments at the Billy Big Spring Site, Montana [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Erlanger, S., & Kanter, J. (2017, October 16). Austria’s Rightward Lurch Reflects Europe’s New Anti-Immigration Leanings. New York Times, A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Benford, 2001; Raymo & Mitrovica, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Raymo & Mitrovica, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Accounting Forum
ISSN (print)	0155-9982
Scope	Accounting Finance