Word Study Citation

Can anyone tell me how to find the citation information for the data compiled when you perform a word study? I pull a lot of information from this tool when doing my assignments for a Hebrew Exegesis class and I have no idea how to cite the information. Thanks

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Justin Gatlin

See Sean's post here.

One of the many reasons we've started producing dataset documentation is to enable academic citation. So for the Bible Sense Lexicon, you could cite the documentation (logosres:cidbdocbiblex;) as something like

Thompson, Jeremy. Bible Sense Lexicon: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2015.

Note this is still an electronic (rather than print) resource.

That doesn't help for product features that aren't driven by datasets, or datasets we haven't yet documented: we're still working through our backlog.

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798845#Comment_798845

I don't think my quote was really clear. So let me welcome you to the forums and clarify: if you are going from the Word Study Guide to a Lexicon, cite that Lexicon. The Word Study guide itself is nothing more than a search engine like Google. If you are using the Lemma counts and things like that, these are calculated on the fly based on the translation, so cite it as software. Logos is probably standard enough in biblical studies that you can (in APA), so a footnote is probably not required. "Logos 6 calculates the word ___ is translated as ___ 7 times in the NKJV..." et cetera,

If you are using the Word Study with senses, use the citation for the sense lexicon above. If you are using another dataset, type "Documentation" into your library window and see if that resource is documented. Then use the information there.

Sections like "Example Uses" tell you what book they are derived from there. Clause information is not, as far as I know, well documented. So that would probably have to be attributed to the software. I would be much more uncomfortable citing "God is the stimulus of ___ two of the seven times it is used, according to Logos Bible Software" in an academic setting than I would counting words.

Scott Ingram

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798859#Comment_798859

If you are using the Lemma counts and things like that, these are calculated on the fly based on the translation, so cite it as software.

Here is how I do that in Turabian Notes/Bibliography Format. This example is for a Word Study search for the Greek "μακάριος" in which I was using the Lemma counts to compare how many times different versions translated it as "blessing" in English.

Note

Logos Bible Software, version 10, Bible Word Study feature, s.v. "μακάριος" (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife Corporation, 2024).

Bibliography

Logos Bible Software. Version 10. Bible Word Study feature, s.v. "μακάριος." Bellingham, WA: Faithlife Corporation, 2024.

Angela Martin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1305749#Comment_1305749

Thank you!