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Australian Journal
of Guidance and Counselling

A quality peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association (AGCA). The AGCA is a professional association providing leadership and support to its more than 1000 members who work in school settings as school psychologists, guidance officers and school counsellors.Through its Code of Ethics the AGCA encourages members to act professionally in a way that benefits professional-client relationships in ways that are consistent with the best interests of children and youth, educators, parents, institutions, the community and the professions.

Editor
Marilyn Campbell Queensland University of Technology

Editorial Board

Associate Editor Linda Gilmore, Queensland University of Technology
Book Reviewer Editor Louise Mercer Queensland University of Technology
Editorial Panel
Louise Rowling, University of Sydney
Nadine Pelling, University of South Australia
Ken Glasgow, University of West Australia
Susan Colmar, University of Sydney

The e-journal version of the Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling is available in over 40,000 libraries worldwide including 90% of US college and university libraries and every major research library across Australia and New Zealand. It is also available as part of the AAP Online Collection and ALPSP Learned Journals Collection.

Open Access Policy
Australian Academic Press adheres to the Open Access (OA) “Green Standard” for author self-archiving which allows journal authors who have published in an Australian Academic Press journal to post the peer-reviewed version of their article prior to typesetting on an online archive, repository, or website.

ISSN  1037-2911
2 issues per year
ONLINE + Free Print if Available

 2009 SUBSCRIPTION RATE AU$

  Institutions Within Australia     $145.00
  Institutions Rest of the World  $160.00
  Individuals Within Australia      $55.00
  Individuals Rest of the World   $60.00

Aims and Scope

The Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling is the official journal of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association. Contributors are from diverse backgrounds and focus on both educational and psychological topics. Articles address theoretical, practical and training issues that impact upon guidance and counselling professionals today.

Through the Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling the society aims to promote research in the area of guidance and counselling and develop a forum for members to discuss matters of common concern and professional interest.

Features of the Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling include:

• case studies
• empirical studies
• book reviews
• review articles.
  

Editorial and Advertising Enquiries

Dr Marilyn Campbell
School of Learning and Professional Studies
Queensland University of Technology
Kelvin Grove Campus QLD 4059
Australia

ma.campbell@qut.edu.au

Author Guidelines

All articles are refereed. Papers submitted to the journal must not previously have been published nor submitted for publication to any other journal.

General Style Guidelines

1. Contributions should follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Spelling and punctuation should conform to The Macquarie Dictionary (4th ed.). For matters of style not covered in these two publications the Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th ed.) should be consulted.
   
   
2. Uncommon abbreviations and acronyms should be explained. Do not use underlining except to indicate italics. Full stops should not be used in abbreviations or acronyms (e.g., NSW).
   
3. Use single quotation marks to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, as slang, or which has been coined. Use quotation marks the first time the word or phrase is used; do not use them again. Do not use quotation marks to introduce a technical or key term. Instead, italicise the term.
   
   
4. Do not use any footnotes. Endnotes should be kept to a minimum and listed at the end of the text under the centred heading "Endnotes". Acknowledgments should be placed at the end of the article with a separate heading.
   
   
5. Tables should be at the end of the manuscript, not in the main text. Their approximate positions in the text should be indicated by the words, “Insert Table X here”. Horizontal and vertical lines should be used sparingly.
   
   
6. Photographs, graphs and figures should be at the end of the manuscript, not in the main text, and include placement instructions in the Word document, such as "Insert Fig x here".
   
   
7. A list of figure captions should follow the tables in the manuscript.
   
   
8. References should follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Examples of citations are:

   The theory was first propounded in 1970 (Larsen, 1971).
   Larsen (1971) was the first to propound the theory.

   Examples of references are:

   Fisse, B. (1989). The proceeds of crime act: The rise of money laundering, offences and the fall of principle. Criminal Law Journal, 13, 5-23.
   Zelinski, E.M., & Gilewski, M.J. (1988). Memory for prose and aging: A meta-analysis. In M.L. Howe & C.J. Brainerd (Eds.), Cognitive development in adulthood (pp. 133-158). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Digital Submission Guidelines

1. Documents should be saved as a Microsoft Word document (or in RTF format if using another program) double-spaced with minimum margins of 25 mm on both sides and in A4 page size.
   
   
2. The first page of the document should include the title of the article only.
   
   
3. The second page should include the title again, with the full names and affiliations of all the authors followed by a full postal and e-mail addresses for the corresponding author. A word count and suggested running head of no more than 50 characters including spaces should also be provided on this second page.
   
   
4. The third page should contain an abstract only, not exceeding 200 words. It should provide a brief overview of the aims, method and major findings and should not refer to the body of the text in the abstract.
   
   
5. FIGURES, GRAPHS, ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SPECIAL CHARACTERS
   
   To ensure optimum quality, please follow the guidelines below when submitting artwork.
   
   Figures, graphs, illustrations and photogrpahs should be prepared to the correct size and each one supplied as an individual file, separate to the manuscript Word file. Include placement instructions in the Word document, such as "[Insert fig 1 here]".
   
   Figures created in Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint need to be saved as PDFs.
   
   Figures created in a drawing program such as Adobe llustrator, CorelDRAW, Freehand, Microsoft Publisher or similar should be saved as EPS (encapsulated postscript) files.
   
   Figures created in Photoshop or with other photographic software should be saved with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi and in TIF format. Minimum resolution for scanned graphics is 300dpi for halftone work (e.g., photographs) and 600 dpi for line art, and these should also be in TIF format. All figures and graphs should should be in black and white line art (artwork that has only text and lines, no shades of grey or blocks of colour).
   
   All photographs should be supplied as separate files in JPEG or TIFF formats for a minimum 300 dpi resolution. (As a rough guide, the file size of each photograph should be above 200KB).
   
   Manuscripts which contain special characters (equations, Chinese characters, etc.) need to be supplied as a high resolution PDF file (print or press format) with all fonts embedded as well as the Word or RTF document.
   
   Prior to sending artwork, the separate files of figures, graphs, illustrations, and so on, should be printed by the author to test that the fonts have been embedded correctly and there is no distortion in the artwork (e.g., lines and fonts reproduce cleanly with no jagged lines or fuzzy edges), as any such faults cannot be corrected by the publisher.