Hi, LyX has currently an issue that the word count statistics does not include citations. I am unfortunately afraid that there might not be agreement whether these are proper words or not, depending on the publisher/journal.
In your experience with different publications, how many words constitute these? [1] : 0/1* (Goldman et al., 1976) : 0/1/4* I tend to implement the starred version unless it causes controversy... Alternatively we could count citation words separately, but I do not like this solution. Pavel