How to format your references using the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling. 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

MacLeod, K. (2000). The Oort crowd. Nature, 406(6792), 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kraemer, J. D., & Gostin, L. O. (2012). Public Health and biosecurity. The limits of government regulation of science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6072), 1047–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

London, A. J., Kimmelman, J., & Carlisle, B. (2012). Research ethics. Rethinking research ethics: the case of postmarketing trials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6081), 544–545.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Duprat, J., Dobrică, E., Engrand, C., Aléon, J., Marrocchi, Y., Mostefaoui, S., et al. (2010). Extreme deuterium excesses in ultracarbonaceous micrometeorites from central Antarctic snow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5979), 742–745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D. (2014). The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Jia, Y., Du, J., Li, H., & Zhang, W. (Eds.). (2016). Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference: Volume 1 (1st ed. 2016.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, S. W., & Vleugels, R. A. (2014). Livedo Reticularis. In M. Matucci-Cerinic, D. Furst, & D. Fiorentino (Eds.), Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease (pp. 29–36). New York, NY: 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 International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 6). Keep Your Local Orbit Tidy – Two Techniques For Tackling The Problem Of Space Junk. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/keep-your-local-orbit-tidy-two-techniques-for-tackling-the-problem-of-space-junk/. 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. (2000). Space Shuttle: Human Capital and Safety Upgrade Challenges Require Continued Attention (No. NSIAD/GGD-00-186). 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

Savage, F. (2014). Effect of Dry-Wet Cycles on Fracture Propagation in Shale and Gas Production Mechanism (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2008, November 22). Boris Fyodorov, 50, Dies; Guided Reforms in Russia. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (MacLeod 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kraemer and Gostin 2012; MacLeod 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kraemer and Gostin 2012)
Three or more authors: (Duprat et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adv. Couns.
ISSN (print)	0165-0653
ISSN (online)	1573-3246
Scope	Psychology (miscellaneous) Applied Psychology Education