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

Hilton, D. (2015). Donald Metcalf (1929-2014). Nature, 517(7536), 554.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rout, M. E., & Callaway, R. M. (2009). Plant science. An invasive plant paradox. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, X., Chen, X., & Wang, L. (2014). Random allocation of pies promotes the evolution of fairness in the Ultimatum Game. Scientific reports, 4, 4534.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, J.-X., Wang, Y.-J., Zhang, W., Wang, N.-X., Bai, C.-B., Xing, Y.-L., et al. (2014). Selective nickel- and manganese-catalyzed decarboxylative cross coupling of some α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids with cyclic ethers. Scientific reports, 4, 7446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moir, I., & Seabridge, A. G. (2006). Military Avionics Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Feinglos, M. N., & Bethel, M. A. (Eds.). (2008). Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practical Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, S.-K., Han, J.-M., & Song, M.-Y. (2010). A Social Network System Based on an Ontology in the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine. In J. G. Breslin, T. N. Burg, H.-G. Kim, T. Raftery, & J.-H. Schmidt (Eds.), Recent Trends and Developments in Social Software: International Conferences on Social Software, BlogTalk 2008, Cork, Ireland, March 3-4, 2008, and BlogTalk 2009, Jeju Island, South Korea, September 15-16, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 46–51). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, February 19). Monkey Think, Other Monkey Do. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2017). Maritime Environment: Federal and State Actions, Expenditures, and Challenges to Addressing Abandoned and Derelict Vessels (No. GAO-17-202). 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

Peto, J. (2009). A defense of Donald Davidson’s dissolution to the problem of global skepticism (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Schilling, M. K. (2016, September 15). Simply Grand. New York Times, p. M2218.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hilton 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hilton 2015; Rout and Callaway 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rout and Callaway 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

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