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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Accounting Literature. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Miller, K. D. (2010). Neuroscience. π = visual cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6007), 1059–1060.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ezenwa, V. O., & Jolles, A. E. (2015). Epidemiology. Opposite effects of anthelmintic treatment on microbial infection at individual versus population scales. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6218), 175–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mosey, N. J., Müser, M. H., & Woo, T. K. (2005). Molecular mechanisms for the functionality of lubricant additives. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5715), 1612–1615.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liu, C., Yang, X. V., Wu, J., Kuei, C., Mani, N. S., Zhang, L., Yu, J., Sutton, S. W., Qin, N., Banie, H., Karlsson, L., Sun, S., & Lovenberg, T. W. (2011). Oxysterols direct B-cell migration through EBI2. Nature, 475(7357), 519–523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen, M. W. (2016). Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Atluri, V., & Diaz, C. (Eds.). (2011). Computer Security – ESORICS 2011: 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Leuven, Belgium, September 12-14,2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6879). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Favre, J.-M., Gašević, D., Lämmel, R., & Winter, A. (2008). 4th International Workshop on Language Engineering (ATEM 2007). In H. Giese (Ed.), Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007, Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007, Reports and Revised Selected Papers (pp. 28–33). 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 Literature.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, April 8). Video: Rare Sighting of Live Oarfish. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/video-rare-sighting-live-oarfish/

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. (1980). Wider Use of Better Computer Software Technology Can Improve Management Control and Reduce Costs (FGMSD-80-38). 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

Sokoya, K. (2014). A Historical Analysis of the Contributions of the Black Power Movement to Higher Education: 1960 – 1980 [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Brantley, B., & Heller, S. (2016, November 24). Say It With Tickets. New York Times, C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ezenwa & Jolles, 2015; Miller, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ezenwa & Jolles, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting Literature
Abbreviation	J. Acc. Lit.
ISSN (print)	0737-4607
Scope