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

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 3.6, pp. 190-191

Section 3.6.8.1. Literature citations

P. M. D. Fitzgerald,a* J. D. Westbrook,b P. E. Bourne,c B. McMahon,d K. D. Watenpaughe and H. M. Bermanf

a Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA,bProtein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA,cResearch Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0537, USA,dInternational Union of Crystallography, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England,eretired; formerly Structural, Analytical and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacia Corporation, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, and fProtein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  paula_fitzgerald@merck.com

3.6.8.1. Literature citations

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The categories describing literature citations are as follows:

CITATION group
CITATION
CITATION_AUTHOR
CITATION_EDITOR

Data items in these categories are as follows:

(a) CITATION [Scheme scheme185]

(b) CITATION_AUTHOR [Scheme scheme186]

(c) CITATION_EDITOR [Scheme scheme187]

The bullet ([\bullet]) indicates a category key. The arrow ([\rightarrow]) is a reference to a parent data item. Items in italics have aliases in the core CIF dictionary formed by changing the full stop (.) to an underscore (_).

The original core CIF dictionary contained the data item _publ_section_references for citations of journal articles, book chapters and monographs. The authors of the mmCIF dictionary felt that a more detailed and structured approach to literature citations was required. This is provided by the mmCIF categories CITATION, CITATION_AUTHOR and CITATION_EDITOR. These categories were subsequently included in the core CIF dictionary and are used in the same way in both dictionaries. Section 3.2.5.1[link] may be consulted for details. Although _publ.section_references remains a valid mmCIF data item, it is expected that the CITATION, CITATION_AUTHOR and CITATION_EDITOR categories will be used for literature citations in mmCIFs.








































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