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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 210
Alphabetical order may not be obvious. For example, the relative order of the
names Smith-Fenwick and Smithers may be in doubt. However, this problem is
not restricted to alphabetising proper names, and need not delay us here. More
serious is that jointly authored works should be listed after works written by
the first author alone. So Chomsky & Halle (1968) will be listed after Chomsky
(1972). This may seem fairly obvious, but word-processors will impose just the
opposite ordering if left to themselves, and so care has to be taken.
Because authors are listed in order of their family names, the first author’s
name is usually given in the format ‘[Family name], [Given name]’. If there are
second or subsequent authors, there is variation in the way in which their
names are dealt with: either they can be ordered in the same way as the first
author’s name, or they can be ordered in the ‘natural’ order (the order you
would use them if you were introducing yourself, for example). The latter
requires less punctuation, which makes it the simpler version to use.
Whichever you choose (or whichever is chosen for you by your publisher), be
consistent!
Where papers from edited works are cited, there is the problem of citing the
name or the names of the editor(s) as well as the names of the author(s). If the
paper is cited as ‘Bloggs, Joe (2000) ‘Words’. In ...’there is nothing to prevent
you using the natural order for the editor’s (or editors’) name(s). Nevertheless,
some publishers prefer the same ordering as for authors’ names, so take care to
be consistent.
In a case like that just cited, if you are referring to several works from the same
edited volume it may be more economical to give the edited volume its own
entry in the reference list to which you can cross-refer. The alternative is to give
full details of edited works every time they are mentioned. Thus the options are
as in (1) or as in (2) (note the use of ‘et al.’ in the first reference in (2)).
(1) Bauer, Laurie (2002). ‘What you can do with derivational morphology’.
In S. Bendjaballah, W. U. Dressler, O. E. Pfeiffer & M. D.
Voiekova (eds), Morphology 2000. Amsterdam and Philadelphia:
Benjamins, 37–48.
(2) Bauer, Laurie (2002). ‘What you can do with derivational morphology’.
In Bendjaballah et al., 37–48.
Bendjaballah, S., W. U. Dressler, O. E. Pfeiffer & M. D. Voiekova (eds)
(2002). Morphology 2000. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins.
The listing in (2) brings up the question of whether to spell out given names
or whether to give initials. Some publishers demand one or the other. The
obvious answer is to use what the author (or editor) uses, since this is clearly
what they prefer. Occasionally this may involve problems where a particular
author usually uses one form of the name but is forced to use another for