How to format your references using the Journal of Accounting and Economics citation style

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

Wadsworth, P., 2003. Cell biology. Persistence pays. Science 300, 1675–1677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wirth, T., Bernatchez, L., 2001. Genetic evidence against panmixia in the European eel. Nature 409, 1037–1040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falenty, A., Hansen, T.C., Kuhs, W.F., 2014. Formation and properties of ice XVI obtained by emptying a type sII clathrate hydrate. Nature 516, 231–233.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hari, A., Zhang, Y., Tu, Z., Detampel, P., Stenner, M., Ganguly, A., Shi, Y., 2014. Activation of NLRP3 inflammasome by crystalline structures via cell surface contact. Sci. Rep. 4, 7281.

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

Gilbert, J.K., 2016. Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education, Models and Modeling in Science Education. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Guveli, A., Ganzeboom, H.B.G., Platt, L., Nauck, B., Baykara-Krumme, H., Eroğlu, Ş., Bayrakdar, S., Sözeri, E.K., Spierings, N., 2016. Educational Attainment, in: Ganzeboom, H.B.G., Platt, L., Nauck, B., Baykara-Krumme, H., Eroğlu, Ş., Bayrakdar, S., Sözeri, E.K., Spierings, N. (Eds.), Intergenerational Consequences of Migration: Socio-Economic, Family and Cultural Patterns of Stability and Change in Turkey and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 71–89.

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 Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. A New Type Of Phantom Memory Has Been Found In The Human Brain [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2014. Telecommunications: USDA Should Evaluate the Performance of the Rural Broadband Loan Program (No. GAO-14-471). 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

Waterman, M.A., 2015. Housing for the homeless mentally ill population: A grant writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Puerto Rico Officials to Testify on Debt Crisis Before Senate Panel. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadsworth, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Wadsworth, 2003; Wirth and Bernatchez, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wirth and Bernatchez, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hari et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting and Economics
Abbreviation	J. Account. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0165-4101
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance