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

Chambers, J. (2014). Planetary science. Forming terrestrial planets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6183), 479–480.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster, D. J., & Wilson, M. A. (2006). Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature, 440(7084), 680–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, J., Sheng, L., & Liu, J. (2014). Synthetically chemical-electrical mechanism for controlling large scale reversible deformation of liquid metal objects. Scientific Reports, 4, 7116.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liu, T., Xie, C., Ma, H., Zhang, S., Liang, Y., Shi, L., Yu, D., Feng, Y., Zhang, T., & Wu, G. (2014). Gr-1+CD11b+ cells facilitate Lewis lung cancer recurrence by enhancing neovasculature after local irradiation. Scientific Reports, 4, 4833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burd, B. (2011). Java® For Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Önerci, T. M. (Ed.). (2013). Nasal Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nasal Disorders. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kelmendi, E., & Gimbert, H. (2016). Deciding Maxmin Reachability in Half-Blind Stochastic Games. In M. Gairing & R. Savani (Eds.), Algorithmic Game Theory: 9th International Symposium, SAGT 2016, Liverpool, UK, September 19–21, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 52–63). 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. (2016, August 9). Meteorites Might Destroy Evidence Of Life On Mars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteorites-might-destroy-evidence-of-life-on-mars/

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. (2009). Health Information Technology: Federal Agencies’ Experiences Demonstrate Challenges to Successful Implementation (GAO-09-312T). 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

Perfitt, T. (2009). Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging [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

Wasik, J. F. (2016, October 14). Regular Investing Smooths the Market’s Ups and Downs. New York Times, BU14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chambers, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chambers, 2014; Foster & Wilson, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Foster & Wilson, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Liu 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