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

Grenier, I. A. (2000). Gamma-ray astronomy. A needle in a cosmic haystack. Nature, 404(6776), 344–345.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, B. C., & Melosh, H. J. (2012). Impact spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment of Earth. Nature, 485(7396), 75–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mei, T.-S., Patel, H. H., & Sigman, M. S. (2014). Enantioselective construction of remote quaternary stereocentres. Nature, 508(7496), 340–344.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wing, K., Onishi, Y., Prieto-Martin, P., Yamaguchi, T., Miyara, M., Fehervari, Z., Nomura, T., & Sakaguchi, S. (2008). CTLA-4 control over Foxp3+ regulatory T cell function. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 271–275.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter, R. J. (1998). Local Emergency Planning Committee Guidebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hatakeyama, T. (2005). Thermal Properties of Green Polymers and Biocomposites (H. Hatakeyama, Ed.; Vol. 4). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Frances, C. (2015). The Dangerous Role of Economists in Shaping American Higher Education Policy. In R. M. O. Pritchard, M. Klumpp, & U. Teichler (Eds.), Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: Can the Challenges be Reconciled? (pp. 53–67). SensePublishers.

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

Fang, J. (2015, September 17). Coffee Before Bed Delays Our Internal Clock. 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. (2000). Information Technology Investment Management: An Overview of GAO’s Assessment Framework (Exposure Draft) (AIMD-00-155). 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

Tromp, M. (2015). Bayesian monitoring of clinical trials: Examples using conjugate priors [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, September 4). How Plan to Help City Pay Pensions Backfired. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grenier, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Grenier, 2000; Johnson & Melosh, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Johnson & Melosh, 2012)
Three authors: (Mei et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Wing et al., 2008)

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