Citing datasets in academic writing

Fr Devin Roza
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edited November 20 in Resources Forum

I'm working on a doctorate and would like to mention the Lexham Figurative Language of the New Testament Dataset and then quote from the introduction to the dataset which is found in the dataset glossary.

I'm planning on citing just the Dataset in the bibliography, as if it were an edited book, and then when I quote from the glossary to just say that it comes from the accompanying glossary, but without including the glossary explicitly in the bibliography. The format in the bibliography would look like this:

Westbury, J.R. – Thompson, J. – Lyle, K.A. – Parks, J. (eds.), The Lexham Figurative Language of the New Testament Dataset (Bellingham, WA 2016).

Does that sound correct, or is there some other convention for citing these datasets which is more common? 

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  • MJ. Smith
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    weekly bump for attention 2

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  • SineNomine
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    Fr Devin Roza said:

    Westbury, J.R. – Thompson, J. – Lyle, K.A. – Parks, J. (eds.), The Lexham Figurative Language of the New Testament Dataset (Bellingham, WA 2016).

    Does that sound correct, or is there some other convention for citing these datasets which is more common? 

    Are you talking about https://ref.ly/logosres/lxfiglanggloss?art=title? Because its title is The Lexham Figurative Language of the Bible Glossary and it contains an Introduction. It would seem to me that the dataset and the glossary are two different things that should be cited as different things.

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  • HansK
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    Fr Devin Roza said:

    Does that sound correct, or is there some other convention for citing these datasets which is more common? 

    Why not? Please keep us updated. Succes with your dissertation. What is the subject?

    Hans

  • Fr Devin Roza
    Fr Devin Roza MVP Posts: 2,413
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1192752#Comment_1192752

    HansK said:

    Fr Devin Roza said:

    Does that sound correct, or is there some other convention for citing these datasets which is more common? 

    Why not? Please keep us updated. Succes with your dissertation. What is the subject?

    Hans

    Thanks! I'm applying cognitive linguistics (and in particular Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory) to the study of the metaphors of the church (temple, woman, city...) in Revelation. It's quite an interesting topic, I find!

    SineNomine said:

    Are you talking about https://ref.ly/logosres/lxfiglanggloss?art=title? Because its title is The Lexham Figurative Language of the Bible Glossary and it contains an Introduction. It would seem to me that the dataset and the glossary are two different things that should be cited as different things.

    I'm not interested in referencing the Glossary, though, just the Dataset. The Dataset then has an accompanying introduction and glossary (and I mention that), but what is really of interest is the Dataset.

  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 746
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1193553#Comment_1193553

    I am not sure but I know when I did it in my papers in graduate school using Turabian and SBL I used this format

    1. First Name Last Name, Title of dataset, Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, date of pub.

    No citation in bibliography. 

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