General  Guidelines

Articles should be original: if any material overlaps with material which the author has published or is submitting elsewhere, this should be made clear when the article is submitted.

Manuscripts should be sent by e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief, Ines O’Donovan:

When sending the manuscript, make sure to indicate section and category for which you want your paper to be considered.

Please write in a clear and straight-forward style - active tense as much as possible.

Please raise and discuss the implications for mentoring and coaching as much as possible.

Please use only non-discriminatory language.

Please summarise detailed statistical evidence.

Please use only relevant tables, charts and other graphics.

Please provide the following as part of your manuscript:

First page

• Title
• Name of author(s) including affiliation/company, country

At the beginning of the article (2^nd page)

• Title
• Abstract. (50 - 100 words).
• Originality/value of your article for the readers (coaches, mentors, researchers, Human Resource professionals, training institutes). (30 - 50 words)
• Keywords. (3 - 5).

Main text of the article

At the end of the article

• References (bibliography)
• About the author(s). (30 - 75 words). Please include your e-mail address if it is okay for you to be contacted by the readers.

Document format:          Microsoft Word (doc or docx). We can translate from most other common word processing programs as well. Please specify which program you have used. Do not save your files as "text only" or "read only". Please make sure that all text is left-bound and that there are only single spaces after punctuation.

Copyright:          It is a condition of publication that authors vest copyright in their articles, including abstracts, to The European Mentoring and Coaching Council. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the journal, to the widest possible readership in electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from EMCC, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as the original source of publication, and that The European Mentoring and Coaching Council is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised.

Client material. Care must be taken to disguise the identity of clients. Where case-study material is presented on a particular client, which may enable the client's identity to be recognised by him/herself or by others, written consent must be requested from the client concerned. Assurance that such consent has been obtained should be provided to the editor, and should also, where appropriate, be mentioned within the article as part of the description of the methodology used. Any liability to clients on the grounds of infringing confidentiality belongs to the author(s).

References should follow the adapted form of Harvard Style as described below. Additional information on the style can be found on the Internet. 

All publications cited in the text should be listed following the text in the bibliography; similarly, all references listed must be mentioned in the text.

Within the text, references should be indicated by the author's name and year of publication in parentheses, e.g. (Folkman, 1992) or (Sartory & Stern, 1979), or if there are more than two authors (Gallico et al., 1985). Where several references are quoted consecutively, or within a single year, within the text, the order should be alphabetical, e.g. (Mawson, 1992; Parry & Watts, 1989) and (Grey, 1992; Kelly, 1992; Smith, 1992). If more than one paper from the same author(s) and year are listed, the date should be followed by (a), (b), etc., e.g. (Cobb, 1992a). Do not indicate page numbers.

Bibliography. The references should be listed alphabetically by author (double spaced) in the following standard form, capitalisation and punctuation:

For periodical articles (titles of journals should not be abbreviated):
BALK, D. (1979). How teenagers cope with sibling death. School Counsellor, vol. 10, no. 31, pp. 150-158.

For books:
LOWENFELD, M. (1979). The World Technique. Chicago: Phoenix Books.

For chapters within multi-authored books:

BEDNAR, R.L. & KAUL, T.J. (1978). Experimental group research: current perspectives. In S.L. GARFIELD & A.E. BERGIN (Eds), Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behaviour Change (pp. 75-89). Chichester: Wiley.

For webpages:

EMCC (2011). Guidance for authors. http://www.emccouncil.org/eu/en/e-journal/guidance_for_authors [Accessed 20/11/2011].

Please avoid unnecessary references or referencing only your own work.

Tables, charts and figures should be supplied as tiff or eps files if possible, otherwise on separate sheets with maximum size. They should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals (e.g. Table 3 or Fig. 3). Their approximate position in the text should be indicated. Units should appear in parentheses in the column heading but not in the body of the table. Words or numerals should be repeated on successive lines; 'ditto' or 'do' should not be used.

Reviewing: We double blind peer review all papers published in the Reviewed Section. In some cases the author(s) will receive feedback on their paper from the editor first. The paper is then sent to two independent referees. Their comments are then forwarded to the author(s) for revision. The author(s) then return the revised paper to the editor. The editor’s decision on publication is final.

To enable the reviewing procedure to be anonymous and impartial, the name(s) and institution(s) of the author(s) should only be typed on page 1 and not be included at the head of the article.

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