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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gates, B. D. (2009). Materials science. Flexible electronics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5921), 1566–1567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chittka, L., & Schürkens, S. (2001). Successful invasion of a floral market. Nature, 411(6838), 653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Storch, N. I., Anderson, K. R., & Lai, D. (2014). Chaotic dynamics of stellar spin in binaries and the production of misaligned hot Jupiters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6202), 1317–1321.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, D. D., Zhou, W., Yan, H., Wong, M., & Lee, V. (2013). Personalized prediction of EGFR mutation-induced drug resistance in lung cancer. Scientific reports, 3, 2855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heckman, R. (2016). Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Uden, L., Heričko, M., & Ting, I.-H. (Eds.). (2015). Knowledge Management in Organizations: 10th International Conference, KMO 2015, Maribor, Slovenia, August 24-28, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 224). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sammet, K., & Bergelt, D. (2012). The Modernisation of Gender Relations and Religion: Comparative Analysis of Secularization Processes. In G. Pickel & K. Sammet (Eds.), Transformations of Religiosity: Religion and Religiosity in Eastern Europe 1989 – 2010 (pp. 51–68). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, June 24). British Astronaut Tim Peake’s Space Photography Is Absolutely Awe-Inspiring. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/british-astronaut-tim-peakes-space-photography-is-absolutely-aweinspiring/. 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. (2015). Federal Student Loans: Key Weaknesses Limit Education’s Management of Contractors (No. GAO-16-196T). 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

Meijer, K. (2015). Let the Gods Dance: Transformation Through Haitian Dance (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2013, February 24). Aleksei German, 74, Director of Anti-Soviet Movies. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gates 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chittka and Schürkens 2001; Gates 2009).

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

Two authors: (Chittka and Schürkens 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

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