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

Gosden, R. (2013). Robert Edwards (1925-2013). Nature, 497(7449), 318.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moir, S., & Fauci, A. S. (2010). Immunology. Salmonella susceptibility. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 439–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hannon, J. B., Tersoff, J., & Tromp, R. M. (2002). Surface stress and thermodynamic nanoscale size selection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 299–301.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, B. J., Tersoff, J., Kodambaka, S., Reuter, M. C., Stach, E. A., & Ross, F. M. (2008). Kinetics of individual nucleation events observed in nanoscale vapor-liquid-solid growth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5904), 1070–1073.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furger, C. (2016). Live Cell Assays. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ye, J., & Cundiff, S. T. (Eds.). (2005). Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb: Principle, Operation, and Applications. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Sjölander, A. E., Boström, K. W., & Ögren, K. (2010). Framing Chemical Risks in Sweden and Poland: Journalists’ Narratives and Media Texts. In J. Eriksson, M. Gilek, & C. Rudén (Eds.), Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges (pp. 45–69). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, D. (2017, January 27). Stimulating The Brain With Electricity May Reduce Bulimia Symptoms. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/stimulating-the-brain-with-electricity-may-reduce-bulimia-symptoms/

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. (1993). Space Transportation: The Content and Uses of Shuttle Cost Estimates (NSIAD-93-115). 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

Parajuli, B. (2014). Students’ Motivations towards Volunteerism: A Comparative Study of the United States and Nepal [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Bittman, M. (2012, October 10). Heavenly Earth. New York Times, MM50.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gosden, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gosden, 2013; Moir & Fauci, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moir & Fauci, 2010)
Three authors: (Hannon et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Kim et al., 2008)

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

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