Literature citations

Hall, S. R.; Fitzgerald, P. M. D.; McMahon, B.

doi:10.1107/97809553602060000734

International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume G
Definition and exchange of crystallographic data
Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon

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International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 3.2, p. 112

Section 3.2.5.1. Literature citations

S. R. Hall,^a ^* P. M. D. Fitzgerald^b and B. McMahon^c

^a School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009, Australia,^bMerck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA, and ^cInternational Union of Crystallography, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England
Correspondence e-mail: syd@crystal.uwa.edu.au

3.2.5.1. Literature citations

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The categories describing literature citations are as follows:

CITATION group

CITATION

CITATION_AUTHOR

CITATION_EDITOR

The entries in the CITATION category group provide a set of data items suitable for the structured recording of references to the literature. At present, they are designed for the storage and retrieval of information about journal articles and individual chapters in books. They do not currently cover conference proceedings, pamphlets, preprints, theses or other kinds of publication. Reference lists are usually requested by journals that accept articles in CIF format as a single text field in _publ_section_references, but the categories in the CITATION group may become more useful for storing citation lists in the future, especially if converters become available to and from other bibliographic formats such as EndNote and $[{\rm Bib}\hbox{\TeX}]$ .

Data items in these categories are as follows:

(a) CITATION [Scheme scheme72]

(b) CITATION_AUTHOR [Scheme scheme73]

The bullet ( $[\bullet]$ ) indicates a category key. The arrow ( $[\rightarrow]$ ) is a reference to a parent data item.

The CITATION category provides the bulk of the information about individual citations. _citation_id provides a link to the CITATION_AUTHOR and CITATION_EDITOR categories, where multiple authors, and, if appropriate, multiple editors are listed.

Example 3.2.5.1 shows how a fully populated citation list is structured across these categories.

Example 3.2.5.1. A structured bibliographic reference list.

[Scheme scheme75]

The authors of a cited reference are listed using items from the CITATION_AUTHOR category. The value of _citation_author_citation_id must match a value of _citation_id in the CITATION category, and this data item forms the link between the authors and the citations. _citation_author_ordinal is used to record the order in which the authors are listed.

The editors of a cited reference are listed using items from the CITATION_EDITOR category. The value of _citation_editor_citation_id must match a value of _citation_id in the CITATION category, and this data item forms the link between the editors and the citations. _citation_editor_ordinal is used to record the order in which the editors are listed.

References

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 3.2, p. 112