CZ:Bibliography

Citation schemes and listing notes

Authors should use the bibliographic citation scheme common to the discipline involved. (Ask what models are used by leading publishers and journals in the field.) The Chicago Manual of Style has comprehensive coverage of the alternatives.

For most books, it is optional but not necessary to include place of publication or publisher.

Books and articles can be combined in listing. Alphabetize by last name of the primary author (if no author, then use the title of the book, ignoring "The", "An", etc.)

Date of publication is tricky in the case of multiple editions and translations. (The book can have the annotation that there are multiple editions.) Amazon.com and books.google.com are useful for dating. A major library online catalog is Melvyl from the University of California.