How to format your references using the Accounting, Organizations and Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accounting, Organizations and Society. 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

Kazazian, H. H., Jr. (2004). Mobile elements: drivers of genome evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1626–1632.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blattman, J. N., & Greenberg, P. D. (2004). Cancer immunotherapy: a treatment for the masses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5681), 200–205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bomfleur, B., McLoughlin, S., & Vajda, V. (2014). Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180 million years of genomic stasis in royal ferns. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1376–1377.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Acremann, Y., Buess, M., Back, C. H., Dumm, M., Bayreuther, G., & Pescia, D. (2001). Ultrafast generation of magnetic fields in a Schottky diode. Nature, 414(6859), 51–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eggert, H., & Kauschke, W. (2012). Structural Bearings. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Calamoneri, T., & Diaz, J. (Eds.). (2010). Algorithms and Complexity: 7th International Conference, CIAC 2010, Rome, Italy, May 26-28, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6078). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aman, B., & Ciobanu, G. (2015). Mobility Types for Cloud Computing. In R. Horne (Ed.), Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies: First Workshop, EGC 2015, Almaty, Kazakhstan, February 26-28, 2015. Proceedings (pp. 43–53). Springer International Publishing.

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, Organizations and Society.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 15). Men And Women Biased About Studies Of STEM Gender Bias – In Opposite Directions. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/men-and-women-biased-about-studies-stem-gender-bias-opposite-directions/

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. (2002). Highway Financing: Factors Affecting Highway Funding Fluctuations and Revenue Trends (GAO-02-527T). 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

Muniyappa, V. K. (2012). Performance analysis of IPv4 versus IPv6 in a simple campus network [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Nossiter, A., & Gladstone, R. (2015, November 13). Series of Shootings and Blasts, Apparently Coordinated. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kazazian, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Blattman & Greenberg, 2004; Kazazian, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Blattman & Greenberg, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Acremann et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Accounting, Organizations and Society
ISSN (print)	0361-3682
Scope	Accounting Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Information Systems and Management Sociology and Political Science