How to format your references using the International Journal of Lexicography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Lexicography (IJL). 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Marder, E. 2001. ‘Moving Rhythms’. Nature 410.6830: 755.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dessler, A. E. and S. C. Sherwood. 2009. ‘Atmospheric Science. A Matter of Humidity’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323.5917: 1020–1021.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polyak, V., C. Hill and Y. Asmerom. 2008. ‘Age and Evolution of the Grand Canyon Revealed by U-Pb Dating of Water Table-Type Speleothems’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319.5868: 1377–1380.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhuang, Z., J. M. Frerich, K. Huntoon, C. Yang, M. J. Merrill, Z. Abdullaev, S. D. Pack, S. B. Shively, G. Stamp and R. R. Lonser. 2014. ‘Tumor Derived Vasculogenesis in von Hippel-Lindau Disease-Associated Tumors’. Scientific reports 4: 4102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wren, C. 2011. Concise Guide to Pediatric Arrhythmias. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Kurosu, M. (ed). 2014. Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services: 16th International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part III. . Vol. 8512. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Foshay, W. R., S. W. Villachica and D. A. Stepich. 2014. ‘Cousins but Not Twins: Instructional Design and Human Performance Technology in the Workplace’. In Spector, J. M., M. D. Merrill, J. Elen and M. J. Bishop (eds), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology. New York, NY: Springer, 39–49.

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 International Journal of Lexicography.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2015. Newly Developed 3D Printer Can Print With Ten Different Materials. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/newly-developed-3d-printer-can-print-ten-different-materials/ (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. 1979. Improvements Recommended for Better Oversight of the Capitol Page School. 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

Wang, T. 2013. Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego Doctoral dissertation.

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

Crow, K. 2001. ‘Battle Over a Pillar to Nobel Yields No Statue, No Peace’. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marder 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Marder 2001, Dessler and Sherwood 2009).

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

Two authors: (Dessler and Sherwood 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhuang … Lonser 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Lexicography
ISSN (print)	0950-3846
ISSN (online)	1477-4577
Scope	Language and Linguistics