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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Boosting biotech in Finland. Nature, 431(7011), 1020–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaspars, M., & Challis, G. (2014). Microbiology: a talented genus. Nature, 506(7486), 38–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baker, P. J., Harris, S., & Webbon, C. C. (2002). Effect of British hunting ban on fox numbers. Nature, 419(6902), 34.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Amrani, A., Verdaguer, J., Serra, P., Tafuro, S., Tan, R., & Santamaria, P. (2000). Progression of autoimmune diabetes driven by avidity maturation of a T-cell population. Nature, 406(6797), 739–742.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kanel, G. C. (2017). Pathology of Liver Diseases. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lu, B.-L., Zhang, L., & Kwok, J. (Eds.). (2011). Neural Information Processing: 18th International Conference, ICONIP 2011, Shanghai, China, November 13-17, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 7062). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

McMillen, C. P., Rybski, P. E., & Veloso, M. M. (2005). Levels of Multi-Robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments. In L. E. Parker, F. E. Schneider, & A. C. Schultz (Eds.), Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata Volume III: Proceedings from the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems (pp. 53–64). 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 Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, January 18). Here’s How Scientists Invented Real-Life Sonic Screwdrivers. 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. (2004). Unfunded Mandates: Analysis of Reform Act Coverage (GAO-04-637). 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

Mueck, K. (2017). Physiology of the Invasive Apple Snail, Pomacea maculata (Perry, 1810), in Louisiana [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Wines, M., & Williams, T. (2014, February 7). Huge Leak of Coal Ash Slows at North Carolina Power Plant. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Jaspars & Challis, 2014; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Jaspars & Challis, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Amrani et al., 2000)

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