How to format your references using the Journal of Counseling Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Counseling Psychology. 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

Gaskell, C. M. (2010). Close supermassive binary black holes. Nature, 463(7277), E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox, B., & Beard, P. (2015). Imaging techniques: Super-resolution ultrasound. Nature, 527(7579), 451–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Ojanguren, A. F., & Tregenza, T. (2008). Comment on “International conservation policy delivers benefits for birds in Europe.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lauvau, G., Vijh, S., Kong, P., Horng, T., Kerksiek, K., Serbina, N., Tuma, R. A., & Pamer, E. G. (2001). Priming of memory but not effector CD8 T cells by a killed bacterial vaccine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5547), 1735–1739.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hooker, J. (2000). Logic-Based Methods for Optimization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hosking, R. J. (2016). Fundamental Fluid Mechanics and Magnetohydrodynamics (R. L. Dewar, Ed.; 1st ed. 2016). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kitamura, S. (2007). Tissue Engineering Research and Cell Regenerative Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD); National Cardiovascular Center (Japan) Trials. In R. Magjarevic & J. H. Nagel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006: August 27 – September 1, 2006 COEX Seoul, Korea “Imaging the Future Medicine” (pp. 5–5). 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 Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, May 15). Germany Just Produced So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use It. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1970). Claim for Reimbursement for State Taxes (B-169959). 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

Lingley-Papadopoulos, C. A. (2008). Image analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography images of the urinary bladder for the recognition of bladder cancer [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

Rosenberg, E. (2016, October 12). Doctor Is Charged in Death After an Abortion. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gaskell, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cox & Beard, 2015; Gaskell, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cox & Beard, 2015)
Three authors: (Rodríguez-Muñoz et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Lauvau et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Counseling Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Couns. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0167
ISSN (online)	1939-2168
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Social Psychology