With a few obvious exceptions, journal titles are abbreviated according to the form in L’année philologique. Accepted abbreviations are used for standard works. Lists of such abbreviations may be found in reference books such as the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3d edn., and in the major Greek and Latin dictionaries.
| Dawkins,AO | R. M. Dawkins et al. The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Supplementary Papers, no. 5. London, 1929. |
| LGPN 3A | A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. 3A. The Peloponnese, Western Greece, and Magna Graecia, ed. Peter M. Fraser and Elaine Matthews. Oxford, 1997. |
| Poralla2 | Paul Poralla, A Prosopography of Lacedaemonians from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great (X–323 b.c.). 2d edn. Chicago, 1985. |
| PMGF | M. Davies, Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Vol. 1. Oxford, 1991. |