How to format your references using the Management Accounting Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Management Accounting Research. 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

Kaplan, K., 2009. Show us the money. Nature 457, 624–625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gneiting, T., Raftery, A.E., 2005. Atmospheric science. Weather forecasting with ensemble methods. Science 310, 248–249.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cao, A., Romanowicz, B., Takeuchi, N., 2005. An observation of PKJKP: inferences on inner core shear properties. Science 308, 1453–1455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blisniuk, P.M., Hacker, B.R., Glodny, J., Ratschbacher, L., Bi, S., Wu, Z., McWilliams, M.O., Calvert, A., 2001. Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago. Nature 412, 628–632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1993. Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rahim, M.M., Idowu, S.O. (Eds.), 2015. Social Audit Regulation: Development, Challenges and Opportunities, CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Guggeis, M., 2014. Multilingualism in the European Union Decision-Making Process, in: Ruggieri, F. (Ed.), Criminal Proceedings, Languages and the European Union: Linguistic and Legal Issues. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–56.

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 Management Accounting Research.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Parasitic wasps must lay their eggs in the right fly, or else [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasitic-wasps-must-lay-their-eggs-right-fly-or-else/ (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, 1991. Weather Forecasting: Cost Growth and Delays in Billion-Dollar Weather Service Modernization (No. IMTEC-92-12FS). 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

Luo, P., 2010. Evaluation of the flicker effect as a generative strategy in enhancing computer -based instruction (CBI) of visual recognition and classification (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Chira, S., 2017. Since When is Being a Woman a Liberal Cause? New York Times SR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaplan, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gneiting and Raftery, 2005; Kaplan, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gneiting and Raftery, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Blisniuk et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Management Accounting Research
Abbreviation	Manag. Acc. Res.
ISSN (print)	1044-5005
Scope	Accounting Information Systems and Management Finance