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

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

Lerman, L. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. The genome dances. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1027.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, R. A., & Wikswo, J. P. (2011). Cardiovascular disease: several small shocks beat one big one. Nature, 475(7355), 181–182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neil, S. J. D., Zang, T., & Bieniasz, P. D. (2008). Tetherin inhibits retrovirus release and is antagonized by HIV-1 Vpu. Nature, 451(7177), 425–430.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

McMeniman, C. J., Lane, R. V., Cass, B. N., Fong, A. W. C., Sidhu, M., Wang, Y.-F., & O’Neill, S. L. (2009). Stable introduction of a life-shortening Wolbachia infection into the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 141–144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edgerton, M. (2013). A Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Maritime and Port Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kearney, A. (Ed.). (2011). Exclusion from and Within School: Issues and Solutions (Vol. 14). SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Lefere, P., & Gryspeerdt, S. (2006). The Alternative: Faecal Tagging. In P. Lefere & S. Gryspeerdt (Eds.), Virtual Colonoscopy: A Practical Guide (pp. 35–49). Springer.

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 Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 27). How We Showed ‘Sleeping On It’ Really Is The Best Way To Solve A Problem. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-we-showed-sleeping-it-really-best-way-solve-problem/

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. (1987). Motor Vehicle Safety: A Review of the NTSB Report on Rear Seat Lap Belt Effectiveness (RCED-88-13). 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

Mazon, W. E. (2009). The effect of the Breath Builder^TM on various lung functions and musical performance abilities of clarinet players [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Eder, S., & Protess, B. (2017, June 5). Trump Business Pivots to Budget-Friendly Hotel Line. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lerman, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gray & Wikswo, 2011; Lerman, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gray & Wikswo, 2011)
Three or more authors: (McMeniman et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting Education
Abbreviation	J. Acc. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0748-5751
Scope	Accounting Education