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

Pain, Elisabeth. 2008. Science careers. An adventurous physicist. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 1517.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fan, Qing R., and Wayne A. Hendrickson. 2005. Structure of human follicle-stimulating hormone in complex with its receptor. Nature 433: 269–277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khush, Ranjiv S., François Leulier, and Bruno Lemaitre. 2002. Immunology. Pathogen surveillance--the flies have it. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 273–275.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu, Zhipeng, Yuanlin Dong, Hui Wang, Deborah J. Culley, Edward R. Marcantonio, Gregory Crosby, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Yiying Zhang, and Zhongcong Xie. 2014. Age-dependent postoperative cognitive impairment and Alzheimer-related neuropathology in mice. Scientific reports 4: 3766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau, Nicolas. 2013. Tools for Signal Compression. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Balmer, Andrew S. 2016. Synthetic Biology: A Sociology of Changing Practices. Edited by Katie Bulpin and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Zaidi, Shabih, and Mona Nasir. 2015. Assessment and Evaluation. In Teaching and Learning Methods in Medicine, ed. Mona Nasir, 109–135. 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2014. What Would It Look Like If The Moon Were A Disco Ball? IFLScience. IFLScience. October 20.

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. 1996. NASA Budget: Carryover Balances in Selected Programs. T-NSIAD-96-207. 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

Melhorn, Susan J. 2009. The microstructure of food intake under conditions of high-fat diet, social stress and social subordination. Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Wagner, James. 2017. Bruce Is Again Hitting Homers, and Again Not Attracting Interest. New York Times, July 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pain 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fan and Hendrickson 2005; Pain 2008).

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

Two authors: (Fan and Hendrickson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2014)

About the journal

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