How to format your references using the Counselling Psychology Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 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 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

Detrick, R. S. (2000). Seafloor spreading. Portrait of a magma chamber. Nature, 406(6796), 578–579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaudet, J., & Mango, S. E. (2002). Regulation of organogenesis by the Caenorhabditis elegans FoxA protein PHA-4. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5556), 821–825.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, M. A., Brandt, J., & Shadmehr, R. (2000). Motor disorder in Huntington’s disease begins as a dysfunction in error feedback control. Nature, 403(6769), 544–549.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, D., Tian, H., Yang, Y., Xie, D., Ren, T.-L., & Zhang, Y. (2013). Scalable and direct growth of graphene micro ribbons on dielectric substrates. Scientific Reports, 3, 1348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker, D. K. (2013). Pharmaceutical Emulsions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zaphiris, P., & Ioannou, A. (Eds.). (2014). Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing and Developing Novel Learning Experiences: First International Conference, LCT 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 8523). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Moran, B., Howard, S., & Cochran, D. (2013). Positive-Operator-Valued Measures: A General Setting for Frames. In T. D. Andrews, R. Balan, J. J. Benedetto, W. Czaja, & K. A. Okoudjou (Eds.), Excursions in Harmonic Analysis, Volume 2: The February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center (pp. 49–64). Birkhäuser.

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 Counselling Psychology Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 1). How To Save California’s Precious Groundwater, The ‘Dark Matter’ Of Our Water World. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-save-california-s-precious-groundwater-dark-matter-our-water-world/

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. (1992). Earth Observing System: Information on NASA’s Incorporation of Existing Data Into EOSDIS (IMTEC-92-79). 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

Hintz, L. (2015). Fighting for Us, Inside and Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Silver-Greenberg, J., & Corkery, M. (2017, June 18). The Used Car Was Repossessed, But the Lender Is Still Collecting. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Detrick, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Detrick, 2000; Gaudet & Mango, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gaudet & Mango, 2002)
Three authors: (Smith et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Counselling Psychology Quarterly
Abbreviation	Couns. Psychol. Q.
ISSN (print)	0951-5070
ISSN (online)	1469-3674
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology Clinical Psychology

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