How to format your references using the Review of Accounting Studies citation style

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

Glazebrook, K. (2009). Galaxy formation: Too small to ignore. Nature, 460(7256), 694–695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boos, W. R., & Kuang, Z. (2013). Sensitivity of the South Asian monsoon to elevated and non-elevated heating. Scientific reports, 3, 1192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Denning, D. P., Hatch, V., & Horvitz, H. R. (2012). Programmed elimination of cells by caspase-independent cell extrusion in C. elegans. Nature, 488(7410), 226–230.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, X., Harris, R. E., Bayston, L. J., & Ashe, H. L. (2008). Type IV collagens regulate BMP signalling in Drosophila. Nature, 455(7209), 72–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE technical manual. (1998). Dow’s Chemical Exposure Index Guide. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McGoron, A. J., Li, C.-Z., & Lin, W.-C. (Eds.). (2009). 25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference 2009, 15 – 17 May 2009, Miami, Florida, USA (Vol. 24). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Buzzard, K. (2014). Computing Weight One Modular Forms over $\mathbb{C} and \overline{\mathbb{F}}_{p}$. In G. Böckle & G. Wiese (Eds.), Computations with Modular Forms: Proceedings of a Summer School and Conference, Heidelberg, August/September 2011 (pp. 129–146). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Review of Accounting Studies.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, November 29). Hands-Free “Bionic” Penis In Development. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1974). Federal Policy, Plans, and Organization for Science and Technology (No. 094579). Washington, DC: 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

Wilson, B. R. (2009). A correlational study: Parental involvement to student achievement in public education (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Kelly, S. (2001, May 20). Still Huffing, Still Puffing. New York Times, p. 720.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glazebrook 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Boos and Kuang 2013; Glazebrook 2009).

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

Two authors: (Boos and Kuang 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Accounting Studies
Abbreviation	Rev. Acc. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1380-6653
ISSN (online)	1573-7136
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Accounting