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

Grayson, Michelle. 2011. Traditional Asian medicine. Nature 480: S81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piketty, Thomas, and Emmanuel Saez. 2014. Inequality in the long run. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 838–843.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thürmer, Konrad, Robert Q. Hwang, and Norman C. Bartelt. 2006. Surface self-organization caused by dislocation networks. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 1272–1274.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Verma, Rati, L. Aravind, Robert Oania, W. Hayes McDonald, John R. Yates 3rd, Eugene V. Koonin, and Raymond J. Deshaies. 2002. Role of Rpn11 metalloprotease in deubiquitination and degradation by the 26S proteasome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298: 611–615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, Donald W. 2014. Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Paterson, Kenneth G., ed. 2011. Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2011: 30th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Tallinn, Estonia, May 15-19, 2011. Proceedings. Vol. 6632. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Badii, Atta, Franco Bagnoli, Balint Balazs, Tommaso Castellani, Davide D’Orazio, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni, Giovanna Pacini, Ovidiu Serban, and Adriana Valente. 2016. Collective Awareness Platforms and Digital Social Innovation Mediating Consensus Seeking in Problem Situations. In Internet Science: Third International Conference, INSCI 2016, Florence, Italy, September 12-14, 2016, Proceedings, ed. Franco Bagnoli, Anna Satsiou, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Paolo Nesi, Giovanna Pacini, Yanina Welp, Thanassis Tiropanis, and Dominic DiFranzo, 55–65. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrews, Robin. 2015. Jellyfish Are Efficient Swimmers Because They Suck. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 4.

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. 2009. Telecommunications: Long-Term Strategic Vision Would Help Ensure Targeting of E-rate Funds to Highest-Priority Uses. GAO-09-253. 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

Marulkar, Sameer. 2016. Indoor object localization system. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, Greg. 2004. There’s No Politics In the Foxhole. New York Times, October 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Grayson 2011; Piketty and Saez 2014).

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

Two authors: (Piketty and Saez 2014)
Three or more authors: (Verma et al. 2002)

About the journal

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