How to format your references using the Accounting History Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounting History 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 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

Smaglik, Paul. 2003. “California Dreaming: San Diego.” Nature 422 (6928): 240–241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kath, William L., and Julio M. Ottino. 2007. “Chemistry. Rhythm Engineering.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5833): 1857–1858.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hibbett, D. S., L. B. Gilbert, and M. J. Donoghue. 2000. “Evolutionary Instability of Ectomycorrhizal Symbioses in Basidiomycetes.” Nature 407 (6803): 506–508.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Silva, José, Ian Chambers, Steven Pollard, and Austin Smith. 2006. “Nanog Promotes Transfer of Pluripotency after Cell Fusion.” Nature 441 (7096): 997–1001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghaye, Tony. 2008. Building the Reflective Healthcare Organisation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Pokorski, Mieczyslaw, ed. 2016. Pulmonary Dysfunction and Disease. Vol. 934. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Everly, George S., and Jeffrey M. Lating. 2013. “Measurement of the Human Stress Response.” In A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response, edited by Jeffrey M. Lating, 103–126. New York, NY: 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 History Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “Why We’re More Likely To Date Someone Who Has An Ex.” IFLScience, IFLScience, November 9. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-were-more-likely-to-date-someone-who-has-an-ex/.

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. 1991. Project on Standardization of Basic Financial Information Requirements of Central Agencies. 156239. 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

Thompson, Amanda J. 2003. “Textiles as Indicators of Hopewellian Culture Burial Practices.” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Kelly, Christopher. 2011. “Drafthouse Founder Tries Hand at Film Distribution.” New York Times, December 11, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Kath and Ottino 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kath and Ottino 2007)
Three authors: (Hibbett, Gilbert, and Donoghue 2000)
4 or more authors: (Silva et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Accounting History Review
Abbreviation	Acc. Hist. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2155-2851
ISSN (online)	2155-286X
Scope	History General Business, Management and Accounting Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Accounting