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

Egolf, D. A. (2002). Statistical mechanics. Far from equilibrium. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5574), 1813–1815.

A journal article with 2 authors

Picker, L. J., & Lifson, J. D. (2015). HIV: Seeking ultimate victory. Nature, 517(7534), 281–282.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gosse, N. J., Nevin, L. M., & Baier, H. (2008). Retinotopic order in the absence of axon competition. Nature, 452(7189), 892–895.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Paige, D. A., Siegler, M. A., Zhang, J. A., Hayne, P. O., Foote, E. J., Bennett, K. A., et al. (2010). Diviner Lunar Radiometer observations of cold traps in the Moon’s south polar region. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6003), 479–482.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, K. (2008). The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Tribastone, M., & Gilmore, S. (Eds.). (2013). Computer Performance Engineering: 9th European Workshop, EPEW 2012, Munich, Germany, July 30, 2012, and 28th UK Workshop, UKPEW 2012, Edinburgh, UK, July 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7587). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Z.-S., Hseu, Z.-Y., & Tsai, C.-C. (2015). Entisols. In Z.-Y. Hseu & C.-C. Tsai (Eds.), The Soils of Taiwan (pp. 55–62). Dordrecht: 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 International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, May 16). Brown Snake Venom Gets More Deadly With Age. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brown-snake-venom-gets-more-deadly-with-age/. 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. (1990). Space Transportation: NASA Has No Firm Need for Increasingly Costly Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (No. NSIAD-90-192). 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

Magner, K. A. (2010). Evaluation of admissions criteria and practices with regards to successful online learning styles and characteristics (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, November 29). Supreme Court Weighs The Meaning of ‘Obvious.’ New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Egolf 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Egolf 2002; Picker and Lifson 2015).

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

Two authors: (Picker and Lifson 2015)
Three or more authors: (Paige 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