This article provides information and several recommendations that the authors (the journal's editors) believe will be helpful to researchers and practitioners who wish to contribute to the college counseling knowledge base by submitting research manuscripts to the Journal of College Counseling (JCC). The authors hope that the comments made in this article will encourage more of JCC's readers to also become its writers.
T he Journal of College Counseling (JCC), sponsored by the American College Counseling Association, publishes articles that inform the practice of counselors working in higher education settings. Published articles fall into one of three categories: Research, Professional Issues, and Innovative Practice. Research studies report on quantitative or qualitative research that has implications for professional practice on university, college, and community college campuses. Research articles strongly emphasize findings that have practice considerations in the college counseling context, and they discuss implications for future research. Professional Issues articles present in-depth analyses of contemporary issues faced by counselors in higher education settings. These articles link current issues with the extant literature and discuss the implications of such issues for college counseling practice and future research. Finally, Innovative Practice articles provide brief descriptions of innovative counseling methods, techniques, approaches, or programs; explain the rationale for adopting the innovative practice; and give recommendations for implementing the new method. Generally, Innovative Practice articles are brief reports, whereas Professional Issues articles and Research studies are full-length.
The purpose of this series of articles is to provide information and several recommendations that we, as editors, believe will be helpful to researchers and practitioners who wish to contribute to the college counseling knowledge base by submitting manuscripts to JCC. In this article, we first offer some general information about the manuscript submission and review process. Next, we discuss some important methodological and conceptual issues concerning Research articles. In a subsequent article to be included in the next issue of JCC,