Citing a dictionary with BibTeX
biblatex
offers the collection
entry type as well as the more specific reference
type. Quoting section 2.1.1 of the biblatex
manual:
collection
A single-volume collection with multiple, self-contained contributions by distinct authors which have their own title. The work as a whole has no overall author but it will usually have an editor.
Required fields:
editor
,title
,year/date
[...]
reference
A single-volume work of reference such as an encyclopedia or a dictionary. This is a more specific variant of the generic
@collection
entry type. The standard styles will treat this entry type as an alias for@collection
.
Both entry types feature multi-volume variants, mvcollection
and mvreference
.
Probably many people (myself included) have this problem. I did many Google searches too and just arrived at a partial solution I think will suffice in my case (I needed to reference a particular entry). This is what I ended doing:
as I'm using APA style, considered this model:
Internet. (2009). In Encyclopaedia Britannica (Vol. 20, pp. 81-82). Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
source:http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/APA/encyclopedia
with this in mind, used the following (case-specific, of course):
@Book{TCDP1999, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, author = {Rationality.}, title = {{The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy}}, year = {1999}, }
And got:
Rationality. (1999). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
I'll let
There is no explicit entry type called @dictionary
in BibTeX (or biblatex
, AFAICT). However, the entry type @book
should provide sufficiently many fields for you to enter the information you need to store. For more on BibTeX's entry types see, e.g., the BibTeX manual.