Journal: Instructions for Authors
Instructions
to Authors
The aim of the International Journal
for the Advancement of Counselling (IJAC) is to promote the exchange of
information and research about counselling throughout the world. Topics considered
for publication by the IJAC include
(a) theories and techniques of counselling; (b) counsellor education, supervision,
and consultation; (c) cross-cultural counselling; (d) career or vocational
counselling; (e) counselling in specific settings or with special populations;
(f) counselling related to special client problems; (g) special applications
and modalities of counselling; and (h) counselling in developing countries.
Manuscripts submitted for consideration as general articles should be not
more than 20 double-spaced pages, and should be written in English and formatted
in APA style—see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th
ed. (1994). The manuscript should have uniform margins that are no less than
2.5 centimeters (or 1 inch), and the font size or size of print should be
12 points. The first page of the manuscript should include (a) the title of
the paper, (b) each author’s name, job title, and organizational affiliation,
and (c) an abstract of no more than 150 words. Brief papers can be considered
based on conference presentations, counselling issues, or counselling cases.
Brief papers are occasionally published in a section of the IJAC that is designated for brief articles. Manuscripts submitted
for brief articles should not exceed seven (7) double-spaced pages. All manuscripts
should contain international or cross-cultural implications or applications
for counselling. Moreover, manuscripts submitted for review should be on European
A4 paper (21 x 29.7 cm.) or USA letter-size paper (8.5 x 11 in.) and should
be mailed in quadruplicate to the following address: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
The Journals Editorial Office, International Journal for the Advancement of
Counselling, P.O. Box 990, 3300 AZ Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Tables and figures that accompany manuscripts should be submitted on a separate
page, and should conform to APA style. They should be numbered with Arabic
numerals and each table or figure should carry a brief descriptive title.
If the material is not original data but is derived from another source, a
note describing the source should be provided at the bottom of the table or
figure. In discussing individual tables and figures within the text of the
manuscript, the author/s should refer to these by their Arabic numeral, e.g.,
“see Table 2.”
Manuscripts are not automatically returned.
Therefore, authors are advised to keep a hard copy and an electronic
copy of their manuscripts. Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to
provide a hard copy and a computer diskette of the final version of the paper.
This final version of the manuscript should include any revisions that are
based on the editorial reviewers’ comments. The authors should not submit
manuscripts for consideration to IJAC
that have been simultaneously submitted to another or other journals for consideration.
The Publisher will provide 50 offprints or reprints of each article free of
charge to the author or senior author.
Written permissions of the copyright holder must be obtained by the author/s
in order to quote from articles and books, unless only brief passages are
being used. Written permission is also needed in order to reproduce all or
part of a table or figure that has been published elsewhere. Permission is
not needed, however, for material in the public domain.
Revised, August 1998