Submitting your articles to Counselling Australia

About Counselling Australia

Why submit to Counselling Australia? To get publishing points on the board!

Being published is part of career advancement for most professional counsellors and psychotherapists, particularly those who wish to advance in academia.

All peer-reviewed articles are eligible for OPD points and publishers can claim on their CVs to have been formally published. Counselling Australia, a peer reviewed professional journal that is registered and indexed with the National Library (ISSN 1445-5285), is now calling for articles and papers for publication.

Counselling Australia is designed to inform and discuss relevant industry issues for practising counsellors, students and members of the Australian Counselling Association. It has an editorial board of experienced practitioners, trainers and specialists. Articles are invited to be peer-reviewed and refereed or assessed for appropriateness by the editor for publishing. Non-editorial staff may assess articles if the subject is of a nature as to require a specialist’s opinion.

The quarterly journal is published every March, June, September and December.

Do you have an article you’d like to publish? Email the editor aca@theaca.net.au

Editorial policy

Counselling Australia is committed to valuing the different theories and practices of counsellors. We encourage readers to submit articles and papers to encourage discussion and debate within the industry. Through their contributions, we hope to give contributors an opportunity to be published, to foster Australian content and to provide information to readers that will help them to improve their own professional development and practice. We wish to promote to readers the Australian Counselling Association and its commitment to raising the professional profile and status of counsellors in Australia.

Previously published articles

Articles that have been previously published can be submitted as long as permission to reprint accompanies the article.

Articles for peer review (refereed)

■ Articles are to be submitted in MS Word format via email.

■ Articles are to be single-spaced and with minimal formatting.

■ Articles must be submitted with a covering page requesting a peer review.

■ Attach a separate page noting your name, experience, qualifications and contact details.

■ The body of the paper must not identify the author.

■ Articles are to contain between 1500 and 5000 words.

■ Two assessors, who will advise the editor on the appropriateness of the article for publication, will read refereed articles.

■ Articles may be returned for rewording or clarification and correcting prior to being accepted.

Conditions

■ References are required to support both arguments and personal opinions and should be listed alphabetically.

■ Case studies must be accompanied by a signed agreement by the client granting permission to publish.

■ Clients must not be identifiable in the article.

■ The author must seek permission to quote from, or reproduce, copyright material from other sources and acknowledge this in the article.

■ All articles, including those that have been published elsewhere, are subject to our editing process. All authors will be advised of any significant changes and sent a copy prior to the proofing of the journal for publication.

■ Authors are to notify the editor if their article has been published prior to submission to Counselling Australia.

■ Only original articles that have not been published elsewhere will be peer reviewed.

■ Counselling Australia accepts no responsibility for the content of articles, manuscripts, photographs, artwork or illustrations for unsolicited articles.

Deadline

Deadline for articles and reviewed articles is 25 January, April, July and October. The sooner articles and papers are submitted, the more likely they are to be published in the next cycle.