How to format your references using the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. 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

Smolke, C.D., 2009. Cell biology. It’s the DNA that counts. Science 324, 1156–1157.

A journal article with 2 authors

Starr, M.B., Wang, X., 2013. Fundamental analysis of piezocatalysis process on the surfaces of strained piezoelectric materials. Sci. Rep. 3, 2160.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hines, P.J., Jasny, B.R., Mervis, J., 2009. Adding a T to the three R’s. Education & technology. Introduction. Science 323, 53.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Suarez, A., Ueno, T., Huebner, R., McCaffery, J.M., Inoue, T., 2014. Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) family members bend membranes in cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 4693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle, W., 2017. Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Malyshkin, V. (Ed.), 2011. Parallel Computing Technologies: 11th International Conference, PaCT 2011, Kazan, Russia, September 19-23, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dadkhah, S., Sharain, K., 2016. Symptoms of Atrial Fibrillation, in: Peacock, W.F., Clark, C.L. (Eds.), Short Stay Management of Atrial Fibrillation, Contemporary Cardiology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–59.

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 International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Charon’s Cracks Formed During Ancient Near-Misses With Other Worlds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/charons-cracks-formed-during-ancient-near-misses-other-worlds/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2017. Information Technology: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Needs to Strengthen Its Strategic Planning and Oversight to Modernize Legacy Systems (No. GAO-17-488). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wilbur, L.J., 2017. Perceptions of Missouri Public School Early Childhood Teachers and Administrators in Regard to Technology and Current Practices (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Leibovich, M., 2013. The Redemption of the Slugger. New York Times MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smolke, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Smolke, 2009; Starr and Wang, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Starr and Wang, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Suarez et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
Abbreviation	Int. J. Acc. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1467-0895
Scope	Accounting Management Information Systems Information Systems and Management Finance