Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling

The Australian Journal of
Rehabilitation Counselling

A quality peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors. This society has a membership of around 750 and for more than 25 years has provided education and resources for Rehabilitation Counsellors. Membership requirements include both academic qualifications and supervision commitments. The Society offers members continuing education, supervision, mentoring and networking and is recognised as an influential body at both State and Federal levels of government health management. The Society's journal is designed to provide readers not only with research outcomes but also, education and practice information to promote the profession of rehabilitation counselling.

Editor
Elias Mpofu,
University of Sydney, Australia

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.

This journal is indexed in PsycINFO.

The e-journal version of the Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling is available in over 20,000 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.

ISSN 1323-8922
2 issues per year
ONLINE + Print

2010 SUBSCRIPTION RATE AU$

Within Australia $145.00
Rest of the World $160.00

Aims and Scope

The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling (AJRC) contains original contributions dealing with a broad range of topics in the rehabilitation and disability fields. Topics include rehabilitation counselling, case management, rehabilitation education, rehabilitation administration, job placement, vocational assessment, psychosocial rehabilitation, independent living, transition planning, supported employment, industrial rehabilitation and disability management.

Authors from Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and South-East Asia are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts.

AJRC is a peer-reviewed scientific publication in the multidisciplinary field of rehabilitation and disability. Only original scientific rehabilitation research and development papers (including pilot studies), selected reviews, and special reports are accepted. AJRC welcomes submissions of graduate student research and submissions on new approaches and innovations in the field. AJRC does not publish Letters to the Editor or other submissions of a more journalistic style.

Editorial Enquiries

Elias Mpofu
Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Counselling
C42 - Cumberland Campus
The University of Sydney
Lidcombe NSW 2141

e.mpofu@usyd.edu.au

Author Guidelines

To be reviewed for possible publication in this journal all authors must follow the style and digotal submission instructions below and submit their manuscript online using the "Submit an Article" link in the menu at the top left of this page.

All contributions and general correspondence regarding editorial matters should be addressed to the Managing Editor. All articles are refereed. Papers submitted to the journal must not previously have been published nor submitted for publication to any other journal and must represent original work.

Digital Submission Guidelines

At least two separate files need to be submitted online via the Australian Acaddemic Press Journal Submission Manager at https://www.australianacademicpress.com.au/jsm:

1) a Title Page document. The name of this file must be constructed as follows:

        [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AJRC_Title.doc

2) an Article document. The name of this file must be constructed as follows:

        [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AJRC_Article.doc

3) all Figure documents should be supplied with the name of the file constructed as follows:

        [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AJRC_Figure# (with # being the number of the figure)
The Title Page and Article documents should be saved as a Microsoft Word document, double-spaced with minimum margins of 25 mm on both sides and in A4 page size.
The Title Page document should contain the full title of the article as well as the full names and affiliations of all 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, along with a maximum of 6 key words.
The Article document should include the complete article without any identifiable author details but including the title and an abstract not exceeding 200 words that provides a brief overview of the aims, method and major findings without any citations.
TABLES

Tables should be created in Word and included at the end of the article Word document after the references with their approximate positions in the text indicated by the words, “Insert Table X here”. Horizontal and vertical lines should be used sparingly.
FIGURES, GRAPHS, ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SPECIAL CHARACTERS

To ensure optimum quality, please follow the guidelines below when submitting artwork.

Figures, graphs, illustrations and photogrpahs (but NOT Tables) 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.

General Style Guidelines

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.
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).
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.
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.
A list of figure captions should follow the tables in the manuscript.
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 2002 (Nicholas, 2002).
Nicholas (2002) was the first to propound the theory.

Examples of references are:

Wall, C.L., Ogloff, J.R.P., & Morrissey, S.A. (2006). The psychology of injured workers: Health and
cost of vocational rehabilitation. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 16, 513–528.

Nicholas, M.K. (2002). Reducing disability in injured workers: The importance of collaborative
management. In S.J. Linton (Ed.), New avenues for the prevention of chronic musculoskeletal pain
and disability: Pain research and clinical management (pp. 33–46). Orebro: Elsevier
Science.

Author Manuscript Checklist

Have I included all of the elements below in my submission?

first name and surname of all authors
affiliations (institution and country) of all authors
name and full postal and e-mail address of the corresponding author
running head of maximum 50 characters including spaces
up to 6 key words
abstract of no more than 250 words in length
the approximate positions of all tables and figures mentioned in the text indicated by the words "Insert Table/Figure X about here"
APA style for citations, references, numbers, capitalisation, table and figure captions, and statistical symbols
all figures supplied separate to text, NOT in colour, and clearly readable.

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