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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Accounting Research (JAR). 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

Bohannon, John. “The Gonzo Scientist. How Astronomers Have Fun (and Nearly Die Trying).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (2008): 1297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pacheco-Vázquez, F., and S. Dorbolo. “Rebound of a Confined Granular Material: Combination of a Bouncing Ball and a Granular Damper.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray-Schopfer, Vanessa, Claudia Wellbrock, and Richard Marais. “Melanoma Biology and New Targeted Therapy.” Nature 445 (2007): 851–57.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pezo, V., D. Louis, V. Guérineau, J-P Le Caer, L. Gaillon, R. Mutzel, and P. Marlière. “A Metabolic Prototype for Eliminating Tryptophan from the Genetic Code.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matte, Gregory S. Perfusion for Congenital Heart Surgery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Cowling, Mark G., ed. Vascular Interventional Radiology: Angioplasty, Stenting, Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy. Medical Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Held, Hermann. “Dealing with Uncertainty – From Climate Research to Integrated Assessment of Policy Options.” In Climate Change and Policy: The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty, edited by Gabriele Gramelsberger and Johann Feichter, 113–26. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

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 Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. “Time Crystals: How Scientists Created A New State Of Matter.” IFLScience. IFLScience, 2017. February 23, 2017. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/physics/time-crystals-how-scientists-created-a-new-state-of-matter/.

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. “Agencies Should Encourage Greater Computer Use on Federal Design Projects.” LCD-81-7. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mbwiri, Francis I. “Remedial Math Instruction Intervention: Efficacy of Constructivist Practices on Alternative Students with Disabilities Mathematics Achievement.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University, 2017.

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

Kenigsberg, Ben. “Review: ‘Danny Says,’ a Paean to a Rock Gadfly and Tastemaker.” New York Times, September 30, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Accounting Research
ISSN (print)	0021-8456
ISSN (online)	1475-679X
Scope