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

Epstein, S. S. 2009. ‘Microbial Awakenings’. Nature 457.7233: 1083.

A journal article with 2 authors

McConnell, J. R. and M. K. Barton. 2003. ‘Botany. Leaf Development Takes Shape’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299.5611: 1328–1329.

A journal article with 3 authors

Asaadi, N., N. M. Ribe and F. Sobouti. 2011. ‘Inferring Nonlinear Mantle Rheology from the Shape of the Hawaiian Swell’. Nature 473.7348: 501–504.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Slotow, R., G. van Dyk, J. Poole, B. Page and A. Klocke. 2000. ‘Older Bull Elephants Control Young Males’. Nature 408.6811: 425–426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pagliaro, L. A. and A. M. Pagliaro. 2011. Handbook of Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yao, L. 2006. Low-Power Low-Voltage Sigma-Delta Modulators in Nanometer CMOS. (Ed.) Steyaert, M. & W. Sansen. . Vol. 868. (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Analog Circuits and Signal Processing). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, X., J. Li, D. Zhou, Y. An and X. Xia. 2016. ‘Preserving the D-Reachability When Anonymizing Social Networks’. In Cui, B., N. Zhang, J. Xu, X. Lian and D. Liu (eds), Web-Age Information Management: 17th International Conference, WAIM 2016, Nanchang, China, June 3-5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 40–51.

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

Taub, B. 2016. Researchers And Politicians Slam The War On Drugs As A Failure. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-politicians-slam-war-drugs-failure/ (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. 2010. Campaign Finance Reform: Experiences of Two States That Offered Full Public Funding for Political Candidates. 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

Freund, S. H. 2013. The Relationship of Academic Courses to Skills Required Of Automobile Repair Technicians. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University 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

Feeney, K. 2005. ‘QUICK BITE: Cranford; Cranford Didn’t Get the Olympics, Either’. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Epstein 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Epstein 2009, McConnell and Barton 2003).

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

Two authors: (McConnell and Barton 2003)
Three or more authors: (Slotow … Klocke 2000)

About the journal

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