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Entry types
Entry types are used to classify BibTeX entries according to their type. Currently, BibSonomy supports the following 24 types of publications:
- article (a short entry representing an article from a journal or magazine)
- book (a longer entry representing a book with an explicit publisher)
- booklet (a work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution)
- collection (a collection)
- conference (a contribution to a conference that hasn't been published in the proceedings of a conference)
- dataset (a dataset, e.g. used for experiments)
- electronic (electronic publications, e.g. eBooks or blog entries)
- inbook (a part of a book, which may be a chapter and/or a range of pages)
- incollection (a part of a book with its own title)
- inproceedings (an article in the proceedings of a conference)
- manual (technical documentation, manual)
- mastersthesis (a bachelor or master's thesis, a more precise specification is possible with the "type" field)
- misc (an entry type used when nothing else seems appropriate)
- patent (a patent)
- periodical (regularly published work, e.g. a magazine)
- phdthesis (a PhD thesis)
- preamble (an introductory statement)
- preprint (a preprint for a publication that will be published)
- presentation (presentation, talk on an event)
- proceedings (the proceedings of a conference)
- standard (a technical standard, e.g. ISO/IETF)
- techreport (a report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series)
- unpublished (a document with an author and title, but not formally published)
- preprint (a selected piece of work printed and distributed before the official publication date of the complete work, e.g. for a conference)
For all entrytypes these fields are required: title, author/editor and year. Some entrytypes have additional fields, that can be entered by the Users:
- article: journal, volume, number, pages, month, language, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, note
- book: publisher, volume, number, series, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
- booklet: howpublished, address, month, language, DOI, ISN, note
- inproceedings: publisher, booktitle, volume, number, series, pages, address, month, organization, language, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, note
- dataset: DOI, url
- electronic: language, DOI, note
- inbook: chapter, pages, publisher, volume, number, series, type, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
- incollection: publisher, booktitle, volume, number, series, type, chapter, pages, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
- manual: organization, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
- masterthesis: school, type, address, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
- misc: howpublished, month, language, DOI, note
- periodical: language, DOI, ISSN, note
- presentation: language, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, note
- proceedings: publisher, volume, number, series, address, month, language, DOI, ISBN, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, organization, note
- techreport: institution, number, type, address, month, language, DOI, note
- unpublished: language, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, note
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