How to format your references using the International Journal of Lexicography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Lexicography (IJL). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Conrad, J. 2015. ‘Reproducibility: Don’t Cry Wolf’. Nature 523.7558: 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murayama, Y. and F. Uhlmann. 2014. ‘Biochemical Reconstitution of Topological DNA Binding by the Cohesin Ring’. Nature 505.7483: 367–371.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merz, A. J., M. So and M. P. Sheetz. 2000. ‘Pilus Retraction Powers Bacterial Twitching Motility’. Nature 407.6800: 98–102.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Meier, M. F., M. B. Dyurgerov, U. K. Rick, S. O’neel, W. T. Pfeffer, R. S. Anderson, S. P. Anderson and A. F. Glazovsky. 2007. ‘Glaciers Dominate Eustatic Sea-Level Rise in the 21st Century’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317.5841: 1064–1067.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Lakshminarayana, B. 2007. Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachinery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Soiffer, R. J. (ed). 2008. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. (Contemporary Hematology). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Kemp, A., S. Maguire and P. Davis. 2011. ‘Physical Child Abuse’. In Stark, M. M. (ed), Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician’s Guide. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 169–202.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Lexicography.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Watch Giant Worm Crawl Out Of Dead Spider. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-giant-worm-crawl-out-dead-spider/ (30 October, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 2004. Homeland Security: Efforts Under Way to Develop Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Mande, M. 2017. Sisyphus’s Fault: How the Shifting Terrain of a Changing Institution Makes Curriculum Reform an ‘Impossible Task’. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach Doctoral dissertation.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Mueller, B., A. L. Baker and A. Southall. 2017. ‘Attempted Murder Charge in Bronx Shooting of Boy on His 5th Birthday’. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Conrad 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Conrad 2015, Murayama and Uhlmann 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Murayama and Uhlmann 2014)
Three or more authors: (Meier … Glazovsky 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Lexicography
ISSN (print)	0950-3846
ISSN (online)	1477-4577
Scope	Language and Linguistics