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

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

Padian, K., 2008. Darwin’s enduring legacy. Nature 451, 632–634.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coffelt, S.B., de Visser, K.E., 2014. Cancer: Inflammation lights the way to metastasis. Nature 507, 48–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson, R.W., Boyet, M., Horan, M., 2007. Chondrite barium, neodymium, and samarium isotopic heterogeneity and early Earth differentiation. Science 316, 1175–1178.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu, Y.-C., Bultje, R.S., Wang, X., Shi, S.-H., 2009. Specific synapses develop preferentially among sister excitatory neurons in the neocortex. Nature 458, 501–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brauer, R.L., 2005. Safety and Health for Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chan, K.-L., Embil, J.M. (Eds.), 2016. Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Management, 2nd ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Son, S., Sim, K.M., 2009. Relaxed Time Slot Negotiation for Grid Resource Allocation, in: Ślęzak, D., Kim, T.-H., Yau, S.S., Gervasi, O., Kang, B.-H. (Eds.), Grid and Distributed Computing: International Conference, GDC 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conferences, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–32.

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 Public Policy.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Global Carbon Emissions Remain Constant For Third Year In A Row [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-carbon-emissions-remain-constant-for-third-year-in-a-row/ (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, 1994. Early Childhood Programs: Parent Education and Income Best Predict Participation (No. HEHS-95-47). 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

Schenkelberg, V., 2010. Cultural competence training: A grant proposal (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

Crow, K., 2003. For Seventh Street, a Love Letter on Film. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padian, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Coffelt and de Visser, 2014; Padian, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Coffelt and de Visser, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Abbreviation	J. Account. Public Policy
ISSN (print)	0278-4254
Scope	Accounting Sociology and Political Science