Registration of the list of used literature

Title

Reference styles differ in the way they reproduce titles, especially titles of articles. Whereas book and journal titles are generally capitalised and italicised in English, practices regarding titles of articles vary: some styles stipulate that article titles should be capitalised and written within quotation marks, whereas other styles recommend non-capitalisation and no quotation marks.

Volume/Issue

Periodical publications, such as scholarly journals, are published on a regular basis in instalments that are called issues. A volume usually consists of the issues published during one year, although the publication length may differ. When compiling a reference list, writers need to pay attention to the preferred format; most reference styles require not only the title of article and journal should be provided, but also the volume of the journal (or book, if it is a multi-volume publication) and sometimes the issue as well.

Place of publication

For book entries in the reference list, some reference styles require the place (city) of publication. In references to publications from the United States, a two-letter abbreviation of the name of the state is often added after the name of the city. Some publishers and reference styles from the US also recommend that the country is provided if the place of publication is located outside of the US.

Publisher

When books are included in the reference list, the name of the publishing company is given after the place of publication. If the company is a university press, the abbreviation UP (for University Press) is sometimes used. Note that in entries for journal articles, the publisher is not stated.

Editor

If the source is a text within an edited volume (such as a chapter in an anthology), it should be listed under the name of the author of the text used, not under the name of the editor. The name of the editor should be given in the bibliographic entry, however.