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 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

Bowles, Samuel. 2009. Did warfare among ancestral hunter-gatherers affect the evolution of human social behaviors? Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 1293–1298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimble, Judith, and David C. Page. 2007. The mysteries of sexual identity. The germ cell’s perspective. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 400–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, Anwei, Changqin Ding, and Yang Tian. 2013. A two-photon ratiometric fluorescence probe for cupric ions in live cells and tissues. Scientific reports 3: 2933.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gupta, Vinay, Aung Ko Ko Kyaw, Dong Hwan Wang, Suresh Chand, Guillermo C. Bazan, and Alan J. Heeger. 2013. Barium: an efficient cathode layer for bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Scientific reports 3: 1965.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sizer, Andrew, Chandrika Balachandar, Nibedan Biswas, Richard Foon, Anthony Griffiths, Sheena Hodgett, Banchhita Sahu, and Martyn Underwood. 2016. Part 2 MRCOG: Single Best Answer Questions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Oraguzie, Nnadozie C., Erik H. A. Rikkerink, Susan E. Gardiner, and H. Nihal De Silva, ed. 2007. Association Mapping in Plants. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mattatia, Fabrice. 2011. An Overview of Some Electronic Identification Use Cases in Europe. In Practical Studies in E-Government: Best Practices from Around the World, ed. Saïd Assar, Imed Boughzala, and Isabelle Boydens, 71–92. New York, NY: 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 Lexicography.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. Scientists May Have Found Humans’ Oldest Known Ancestor – A Bag-Like Creature With No Anus. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 31.

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 Contract Management. NSIAD-96-95R. 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

Molina-Gutierrez, Elizabeth. 2009. Keys to my home: A grant proposal project. 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

Barron, James. 2016. Bar Cars Are Coming Back, but Don’t Expect a Seat. New York Times, September 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowles 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kimble and Page 2007; Bowles 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kimble and Page 2007)
Three or more authors: (Gupta et al. 2013)

About the journal

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