How to format your references using the Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Panksepp, J. (2011). Behavior. Empathy and the laws of affect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6061), 1358–1359.

A journal article with 2 authors

He, S., & MacLeod, D. I. (2001). Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from invisible patterns. Nature, 411(6836), 473–476.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernlund, J. W., Thomas, C., & Tackley, P. J. (2005). A doubling of the post-perovskite phase boundary and structure of the Earth’s lowermost mantle. Nature, 434(7035), 882–886.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xiong, W., Zhou, Y. S., Hou, W. J., Jiang, L. J., Gao, Y., Fan, L. S., Jiang, L., Silvain, J. F., & Lu, Y. F. (2014). Direct writing of graphene patterns on insulating substrates under ambient conditions. Scientific Reports, 4, 4892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rieth, M. (2012). Pharmazeutische Mikrobiologie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Huang, D.-S., Han, K., & Hussain, A. (Eds.). (2016). Intelligent Computing Methodologies: 12th International Conference, ICIC 2016, Lanzhou, China, August 2-5, 2016, Proceedings, Part III (Vol. 9773). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, Q. (2015). In-Situ Urbanization in Tourism-Oriented Towns in China’s Southwest Mountainous Area: A Case Study of Yongxin Town. In L. Shen, K. Ye, & C. Mao (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (pp. 37–46). 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 Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, June 5). Supernova Explosions May Give A Powerful Kick To Newborn Black Holes. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2003). Highway Research: DOT’s Actions to Implement Best Practices for Setting Research Agendas and Evaluating Outcomes (GAO-03-640T). 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

Ameen, U. (2012). Social and political climates’ influence on Muslim American students’ intersectional identity [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Loomis, G. (2012, December 18). Opera of the Soul, Sparsely Staged. New York Times, 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Panksepp, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (He & MacLeod, 2001; Panksepp, 2011).

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

Two authors: (He & MacLeod, 2001)
Three authors: (Hernlund et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Xiong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice
ISSN (print)	1752-1882
ISSN (online)	1752-1890
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology