- Author
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Patrias, K.
- Coporate
- National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
- Report
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NLM-LO-91-01
April 1991
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation. Final Report,
National Libraray of Medicine, Bethesda, MD,
248 p.,
1991
- Keywords
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manual
- Abstract
- This publication has been produced to provide assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, and to librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations. Formats for fourteen categories of published and unpublished material are covered. The list of types of materials to be included was drawn up with the assistance of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and therefore consists of those types the Committee members feel would be most frequently encountered by the biomedical community and/or would be more difficult to cite. For a bibliographic citation or reference to each type of material discussed, answers to the followint three questions are provided: (1) what bibliographic elements (i.e., author, title, etc.) should be present; (2) what order or sequence should these elements follow; and (3) what punctuation should be employed within the elements and to separate them.