How to format your references using the Lexicography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lexicography. 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

Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo. 2003. Basic concepts: to put it simply. Nature 426: 607.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grayson, Michelle, and Stephen Pincock. 2015. Nature Index 2015 Collaborations. Nature 527: S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hampshire, Adam, Alex MacDonald, and Adrian M. Owen. 2013. Hypoconnectivity and hyperfrontality in retired American football players. Scientific reports 3: 2972.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ney, A., C. Pampuch, R. Koch, and K. H. Ploog. 2003. Programmable computing with a single magnetoresistive element. Nature 425: 485–487.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter, David A. 2014. A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Matoušek, Jiří, Jaroslav Nešetřil, and Marco Pellegrini, ed. 2014. Geometry, Structure and Randomness in Combinatorics. Vol. 18. CRM Series. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore.

A chapter in an edited book

Shrestha, Bikram, Pavel Kindlmann, and Shant Raj Jnawali. 2012. Interactions Between the Himalayan Tahr, Livestock and Snow Leopards in the Sagarmatha National Park. In Himalayan Biodiversity in the Changing World, ed. Pavel Kindlmann, 115–143. 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 Lexicography.

Blog post

Carpineti, Chris. 2017. Hundreds of Nuclear Test Clips Have Been Declassified, And The Footage Is Both Awe-Inspiring And Terrifying. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 17.

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. 1998. China: U.S. and European Union Arms Sales Since the 1989 Embargoes. T-NSIAD-98-171. 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

Ramey, Jackie D. 2013. A Case Study: Achievement Studies of Persistent, Transitional, and Transient Populations within the Blitz Program Model at a Large Midwestern Elementary School. Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University.

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

Wallace, Nicolle. 2016. The Minivan vs. the Maserati. New York Times, September 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piattelli-Palmarini 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Piattelli-Palmarini 2003; Grayson and Pincock 2015).

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

Two authors: (Grayson and Pincock 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ney et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Lexicography
ISSN (print)	2197-4292
ISSN (online)	2197-4306
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