How to format your references using the Advances in Accounting citation style

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

Dzenis, Y. (2008). Materials science. Structural nanocomposites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5862), 419–420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuzzi, J. N., & Alexander, C. M. O. (2006). Chondrule formation in particle-rich nebular regions at least hundreds of kilometres across. Nature, 441(7092), 483–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu, L. Q., Cheley, S., & Bayley, H. (2001). Capture of a single molecule in a nanocavity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5504), 636–640.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pan, X., Eathiraj, S., Munson, M., & Lambright, D. G. (2006). TBC-domain GAPs for Rab GTPases accelerate GTP hydrolysis by a dual-finger mechanism. Nature, 442(7100), 303–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nemethy, L. (2011). Business Exit Planning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McMillan, D. B. (Ed.). (2007). Fish Histology: Female Reproductive Systems. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ehara, T. (2005). Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States. In A. Welch (Ed.), The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession (pp. 59–69). 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 Advances in Accounting.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 20). Rising Seas Bring Heavy Burden To Florida Coastal Economy. Can It Adapt? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rising-seas-bring-heavy-burden-florida-coastal-economy-can-it-adapt/

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. (2006). Electronic Government: Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing New Federal Employee Identification Standard (GAO-06-178). 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

Hill, L. (2015). Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy [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

Billard, M. (2010, July 22). Jodi Arnold Expands Her Empire. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dzenis, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Cuzzi & Alexander, 2006; Dzenis, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Cuzzi & Alexander, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Pan et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Accounting
Abbreviation	Adv. Acc.
ISSN (print)	0882-6110
Scope	Accounting Finance