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

Brandenberger, R. (2007). Astronomy. A texture in the sky? Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5856), 1560–1561.

A journal article with 2 authors

Südhof, T. C., & Rothman, J. E. (2009). Membrane fusion: grappling with SNARE and SM proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 474–477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyamoto, K., Miyake, S., & Yamamura, T. (2001). A synthetic glycolipid prevents autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inducing TH2 bias of natural killer T cells. Nature, 413(6855), 531–534.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vanhollebeke, B., De Muylder, G., Nielsen, M. J., Pays, A., Tebabi, P., Dieu, M., et al. (2008). A haptoglobin-hemoglobin receptor conveys innate immunity to Trypanosoma brucei in humans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5876), 677–681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin, C. J. (2015). The 10 Principles of Food Industry Sustainability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stanescu, L. (2012). Creating New Medical Ontologies for Image Annotation: A Case Study. (D. D. Burdescu, M. Brezovan, & C. G. Mihai, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nets-Zehngut, R. (2016). The Israeli Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict: Its Characteristics and Relation to the Conflict. In K. Sharvit & E. Halperin (Eds.), A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II (pp. 49–60). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, November 13). Astronomers Detects Wind Speeds Of 5,400mph On Distant Exoplanet. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-exoplanet-weather-map-finds-wind-speeds-5400mph/. 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. (1996). Air Traffic Control: Remote Radar for Grand Junction (No. RCED-97-22). 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

Fountain, J. M. (2014). Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model (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

Kelly, M. (1992, May 24). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Personal Finances; Perot Reneged on Pledge to Reagan. New York Times, p. 122.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brandenberger 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brandenberger 2007; Südhof and Rothman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Südhof and Rothman 2009)
Three or more authors: (Vanhollebeke et al. 2008)

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