Bibliography

thumb|250px|Bibliographies at the University Library of Graz Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or descriptive bibliog

branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism

thumb|xkcd webcomic titled "[[Wikipedian Protester". The sign says: "".]] A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work, for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears.

First edition copy of 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays held by State Library of New South Wales

thumb|A list of citations, the majority Ibid citations Ibid. or ib. is an abbreviation for the Latin word ibīdem, meaning , commonly used in an endnote, footnote, bibliography citation, or scholarly reference to refer to the source cited in the preceding note or list item. This is similar to idem, literally meaning , abbreviated id., which is commonly used in legal citation.

text placed at the bottom of a page or at the end of a chapter

set of standards for the writing and design of documents

book in a series, typically identified sequentially (e.g. Volume 3)

specific version of a work, resulting from its edition, adaptation, or translation; set of substantially similar copies of a work (use with P31 ["instance of"])

An epitome (; , from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment. Epitomacy represents "to the degree of." An abridgment differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.

ISO standard for bibliographic referencing

Latin abbreviation

citation style that uses numbers within the text to cite references

citation system

critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text

combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries

term used in bibliography for books, texts, publications or articles that contain collaborations

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is a style guide that prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. It is taught and used at a majority of law schools in the United States and is also used in a majority of federal courts. Legal publishers also use several "house" citation styles in their works.

systematic bibliography of acquisitions of a national library

record book of the Stationers' Company of London

footnote or endnote term

annotated catalog of the works that were considered for inclusion in the Siku Quanshu

bibliographic database

idem is a Latin term meaning "the same". It is commonly abbreviated as id., which is particularly used in legal citations to denote the previously cited source (compare ibid.). It is also used in academic citations to replace the name of a repeated author.

American mathematician (1854–1914)

1840 hoax in Binche, Belgium

editions of works, particularly play manuscripts, of particularly low fidelity to a presumptive original

early collection of plays attributed to Shakespeare

United States-based nonprofit organization that supports editorial practice among scientific writers

A variorum, short for , is a work that collates all known variants of a text. It is a work of textual criticism, whereby all variations and emendations are set side by side so that a reader can track how textual decisions have been made in the preparation of a text for publication. The Bible and the works of William Shakespeare have often been the subjects of variorum editions, although the same techniques have been applied with less frequency to many other works.