How to format your references using the Language Resources and Evaluation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Language Resources and Evaluation. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Richard, T. L. (2010). Challenges in scaling up biofuels infrastructure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5993), 793–796.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, D., & Kaner, R. B. (2008). Materials science. Graphene-based materials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5880), 1170–1171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kotera, E., Tasaka, M., & Shikanai, T. (2005). A pentatricopeptide repeat protein is essential for RNA editing in chloroplasts. Nature, 433(7023), 326–330.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kelly-Welch, A. E., Hanson, E. M., Boothby, M. R., & Keegan, A. D. (2003). Interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 signaling connections maps. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1527–1528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tikhomirov, V. V. (2016). Hydrogeochemistry Fundamentals and Advances. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maldonado, J. K., Colombi, B., & Pandya, R. (Eds.). (2014). Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Impacts, Experiences and Actions. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Faden, L. Y. (2015). Globalization and History Education: The United States and Canada. In J. Zajda (Ed.), Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture (pp. 51–65). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Language Resources and Evaluation.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 24). Here’s How LSD Messes With Your Ability To Use Language. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/heres-how-lsd-messes-with-your-ability-to-use-language/. Accessed 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. (2012). Software Development: Effective Practices and Federal Challenges in Applying Agile Methods (No. GAO-12-681). 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

Bennett, M. A. (2017). The Underrepresentation of Registered Nurses in Hospital CEO Positions: A Grounded Theory Study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, January 15). Schoolhouse Blues. New York Times, p. 14LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richard 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Li and Kaner 2008; Richard 2010).

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

Two authors: (Li and Kaner 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kelly-Welch et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language Resources and Evaluation
Abbreviation	Lang. Resour. Eval.
ISSN (print)	1574-020X
ISSN (online)	1574-0218
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Library and Information Sciences Linguistics and Language