@String{cup = {Cambridge University Press}} @String{oup = {Oxford University Press}} @String{uchp = {University of Chicago Press}} @String{hup = {Harvard University Press}} @String{pup = {Princeton University Press}} @String{ucp = {University of California Press}} @String{sup = {Stanford University Press}} @Review{Clemens:letter, journaltitle = {Wall Street Journal}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {2000-04-21}, author = {Clemens, David}, title = {letter to the editor}, shorttitle = {letter to the editor}, annote = {A typical letter to an editor -- note the use of lowercase letter in title and shorttitle, using the automatic capitalization function of those fields in Review entries.} } @Book{adorno:benj, title = {The Complete Correspondence, 1928--1940}, publisher = hup, year = 1999, author = {Adorno, Theodor W. and Benjamin, Walter}, editor = {Lonitz, Henri}, translator = {Nicholas Walker}, location = {Cambridge, MA}, shorttitle = {Complete Correspondence}, annote = {A published collection of letters, in a Book entry rather than Letter. References to it would be by page rather than by individual letter.} } @Book{aristotle:metaphy:gr, shorttitle = {Metaphysics}, title = {Metaphysics}, keywords = {original}, entrysubtype = {classical}, origdate = 1924, year = 1997, author = {Aristotle}, editor = {Ross, W.~D.}, publisher = {Oxford University Press and Sandpiper Books}, pubstate = {reprint}, volumes = 2, location = {Oxford}, annote = {A work from classical antiquity, presented in a Book entry with "classical" entrysubtype, hence references to it will have a special form in short notes. This assumes you are using the traditional, fixed divisions of the text, in this case those of Bekker's edition, instead of page references to this edition. In the latter case, you don't need the entrysubtype. Also note keywords field, which means it won't be printed separately in the bibliography, because it will be appended to the entry for the english translation, given in the next entry. This volume is a reprint edition, notice the use of the string "reprint" in the pubstate field, and the origyear field holding date of original publication. Finally, notice two publishers, separated by keyword "and."} } @Book{aristotle:metaphy:trans, title = {Metaphysica}, entrysubtype = {classical}, year = 1928, volume = 8, author = {Aristotle}, editor = {Ross, W.~D.}, nameb = {Ross, W.~D.}, origlanguage = {greek}, userf = {aristotle:metaphy:gr}, maintitle = {The Works of Aristotle, Translated into English}, publisher = {Clarendon Press}, edition = 2, location = {Oxford}, annote = {Translation of the previous entry, in this case also using Book with "classical" entrysubtype, as references will be by the pages of Bekker's edition. The userf field contains the entry key for the Greek original, which means the bibliography entry will contain the reference to the translation followed by that to the Greek text. The origlanguage field means that the connecting text between the two books in the bibliography will read "Greek edition:" instead of "Originally published as." Note also nameb, the translator of this particular volume of the maintitle, as distinct from the editor of the whole series, even though in this case they happen to be the same person.} } @InBook{ashbrook:brain, author = {Ashbrook, James~B. and Albright, Carol Rausch}, title = {The Frontal Lobes, Intending, and a Purposeful God}, booktitle = {The Humanizing Brain}, publisher = {Pilgrim Press}, year = 1997, chapter = 7, location = {Cleveland, OH}, shorttitle = {The Frontal Lobes}, annote = {A typical InBook entry, identified by title and also, in this case, by chapter number rather than page range.} } @Article{assocpress:gun, journaltitle = {New York Times}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {2000-06-12}, author = {{Associated Press}}, title = {Westchester Approves Measure on Gun Safety}, shorttitle = {Westchester Approves Measure}, annote = {A fairly typical Article entry from a newspaper, with the keyword "magazine" as entrysubtype, and with a corporate author inside an extra set of curly braces.} } @Music{auden:reading, title = {Poems}, author = {Auden, W. H.}, number = 7137, series = {Spoken Arts}, type = {compact disc}, note = {read by the author}, annote = {An audiobook, lacking traditional publishing information, presented in a Music entry, with which cp. twain:audio, an Audio entry. Here, the type field contains the medium, while the series and number field contain the label information for the CD, as is standard in Music entries.} } @Article{author:forthcoming, author = {Author, Margaret~M.}, title = {Article Title}, journaltitle = {Journal Name}, year = {forthcoming}, volume = 98, annote = {An example of how to deal with a forthcoming article.} } @Book{babb:peru, title = {Between Field and Cooking Pot}, subtitle = {The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru}, year = 1989, author = {Babb, Florence}, publisher = {University of Texas Press}, edition = {\bibstring{revisededition}}, location = {Austin}, annote = {A revised edition, with the bibstring revisededition in the edition field.} } @Review{barcott:review, journaltitle = {New York Times Book Review}, date = {2000-04-16}, author = {Barcott, Bruce}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, title = {\bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{The Last Marlin: The Story of a Family at Sea}, \bibstring{by} Fred Waitzkin}, pages = 7, shorttitle = {\bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{The Last Marlin}}, annote = {Typical Review entry from a magazine or newspaper, with keyword "magazine" in entrysubtype, and with the bibstring reviewof in the title and shorttitle fields. You could just write "review of" instead, but the bibstring makes the entry portable across languages. Note the formatting of the reviewed book's title using \mkbibemph.} } @Article{batson, author = {Batson, C.~Daniel}, title = {How Social Is the Animal? The Human Capacity for Caring}, journaltitle = {American Psychologist}, date = {1990-03}, volume = 45, pages = {336--46}, shorttitle = {How Social Is the Animal?}, annote = {Very typical Article entry, but notice the placement of the subtitle in the title field, in order to avoid the printing of the colon usually separating the two. When the title proper ends with a question mark or exclamation point, and you haven't placed that title into quotation marks, this workaround is necessary, and the shorttitle field helps with subsequent short notes.} } @Article{beattie:crime, author = {Beattie, J.~M.}, title = {The Pattern of Crime in England, 1660--1800}, journaltitle = {Past and Present}, year = 1974, number = 62, pages = {47--95}, shorttitle = {The Pattern of Crime in England}, annote = {Article entry with number instead of volume.} } @Image{bedford:photo, author = {Bedford, Francis}, title = {Stratford on Avon Church from the Avon}, type = {albumen print of collodion negative}, institution = {International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House}, year = {1860s}, note = {18.8 x 28 cm\adddot}, location = {Rochester}, annote = {A typical Image entry, for presenting a photograph. Note the type field, and the fact that it begins with a lowercase letter, allowing biblatex to capitalize it contextually if needed.} } @Music{beethoven:sonata29, title = {Piano Sonata \bibstring{number} 29 \mkbibquote{Hammerklavier}}, author = {Beethoven}, editor = {Peter Serkin}, shorttitle = {Piano Sonata \bibstring{number} 29}, editortype = {none}, number = {CDD 270}, series = {Proarte Digital}, annote = {A musical recording exhibiting several of the peculiarities common to the audiovisual entry types. Here, the composer goes in the author field, while the performer goes into the editor field. The editortype "none" prevents any identifying string being used for the performer, as none is needed. As in most Music entries, the series and number give label identifying information, but the Manual has provided neither a medium for the type field nor the publisher who owns the label. (I'm assuming that one is supposed to be able to gather this information from the number and series field, but the absence of a date doesn't help, either.)} } @BookInBook{bernard:boris, author = {Bernard, Thomas}, title = {A Party for Boris}, booktitle = {Histrionics}, booksubtitle = {Three Plays}, translator = {Jansen, Peter~K. and Northcott, Kenneth}, publisher = uchp, year = 1990, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A typical BookInBook entry, presenting part of a book that could in other contexts be a book in its own right. The title here will therefore be italicized. Notice especially the use of booktitle in such an entry, which makes it a "book within a book."} } @Music{bernstein:shostakovich, title = {Symphony \bibstring{number} 5}, author = {Shostakovich, Dmitri}, editor = {Bernstein, Leonard}, editortype = {conductor}, editora = {{New York Philharmonic}}, editoratype = {none}, number = {IM 35854}, series = {CBS}, options = {useauthor=false}, annote = {Like beethoven:sonata29, this is another rather abbreviated Music entry, lacking a date, a publisher and a type. It does, however, show the method for emphasizing the conductor instead of the composer, and also for identifying the conductor in the editortype field. Here, the performing orchestra goes in the editora field, and the editoratype "none" prevents any string attaching to the orchestra, as one isn't needed. The usual series and number give the label information.} } @Book{boxer:china, title = {South China in the Sixteenth Century}, year = 1953, editor = {Boxer, Charles~R.}, number = {2nd ser., 106}, series = {Hakluyt Society Publications}, location = {London}, shorttitle = {South China}, annote = {Book entry with series and number. In all book-like entries (as opposed to Article, Periodical, and Review entries) the series field will be a name, as here, while the number field may contain such information as "2nd ser." or "vol. 3," or just a plain number. Putting "2nd ser." in the number field may seem counter-intuitive, but it's necessary for getting the punctuation to work out right.} } @Article{brown:bremer, title = {A Swedish Traveler in Early Wisconsin}, subtitle = {The Observations of Frederika Bremer}, titleaddon = {pts.\ 1 and 2}, journaltitle = {Wisconsin Magazine of History}, year = 1978, issue = {Summer}, volume = 61, pages = {300--318; 62 (Autumn 1978): 41--56}, editor = {Brown, George~C.}, annote = {An unusual Article entry, combining into one reference a two-part article using both the titleaddon field and the pages field. This is a kludge, and at some point I hope to implement a better system. You could, also, simply refer to each part separately. Note also the issue field, with the name of a season, and the lowercase letter starting the titleaddon field, which will automatically capitalize the data depending on the context within an entry.} } @Book{browning:aurora, title = {Aurora Leigh}, subtitle = {Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism}, year = 1996, author = {Browning, Elizabeth Barrett}, editor = {Reynolds, Margaret}, publisher = {Norton}, series = {Norton Critical Editions}, location = {New York}, annote = {A Book entry with a series field, but no number.} } @Review{bundy:macneil, journaltitle = {MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour}, usera = {PBS}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {1990-02-07}, author = {Bundy, McGeorge}, title = {interview by Robert MacNeil}, shorttitle = {interview}, annote = {A television interview presented in a Review entry, with "magazine" entrysubtype. Note that the interviewee is presented as the author, and that the broadcast network is given in the usera field. Note also the use of lowercase letters to start both title and shorttitle, allowing automatic contextual capitalization of a generic title in a Review entry.} } @InCollection{centinel:letters, author = {Centinel}, nameaddon = {\bibstring{pseudonym}}, titleaddon = {letters}, booktitle = {The Complete Anti-Federalist}, publisher = uchp, shorttitle = {\autocap{l}etters}, year = 1981, editor = {Storing, Herbert J.}, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A rare example of a generic, unformatted title in an InCollection entry, it therefore has a titleaddon field and no title field. Note use of lowercase initial letter in that titleaddon field, and of \autocap in the shorttitle. "Centinel" is a pseudonym and the actual author isn't known, so the bibstring pseudonym is put in the nameaddon field.} } @Book{chaucer:alt, title = {Chaucer Life-Records}, options = {useauthor=false,useeditor=false,usetranslator=false, usecompiler=false}, year = 1966, editor = {Crow, Martin~M. and Olson, Clair~C.}, namec = {Manly, John~M. and Richert, Edith}, publisher = oup, note = {with the assistance of Lilian~J. Redstone and others}, location = {London}, annote = {One way of presenting a Book so that the title comes first in the entry. Here, we disable the use of author, editor, translator, and compiler in the options field, so the title is all that remains. Note that we have to disable translator even though there isn't one in the entry -- this is necessary to make sure that no name will be found to place before the title. The compilers go in namec, and other information in note, which starts with a lowercase letter. Cf. next entry.} } @Book{chaucer:liferecords, title = {Chaucer Life-Records}, publisher = oup, year = 1966, note = {\partedit Martin M. Crow and Clair C. Olson from materials compiled by John M. Manly and Edith Richert, with the assistance of Lilian J. Redstone and others}, location = {London}, annote = {A second way of presenting the same Book. There's no author, editor, or compiler, so the title goes first in the entry. All other information appears in the note field, using the \partedit macro to get the initial strings right in bibliography and notes. (If your bibliography is in French, you'll need to add "de" after this \partedit command.) Cf. the previous entry.} } @Book{chicago:manual, title = {The Chicago Manual of Style}, year = 2003, author = {{University of Chicago Press}}, publisher = uchp, edition = 15, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A manual presented in a Book entry. Note curly brackets around corporate author, which is printed twice, both as author and publisher.} } @Booklet{clark:mesopot, title = {Mesopotamia}, subtitle = {Between Two Rivers}, author = {Hazel V. Clark}, howpublished = {End of the Commons General Store}, year = {\mkbibbrackets{1957?}}, location = {Mesopotamia, OH}, annote = {A standard Booklet entry, though the same information could be presented in a Book entry, using publisher instead of howpublished. Note brackets around year, as this is obviously a best guess.} } @Video{cleese:holygrail, title = {Commentaries}, date = 2001, titleaddon = {disc 2}, booktitle = {Monty Python and the Holy Grail}, author = {Cleese, John and Gilliam, Terry and Idle, Eric and Jones, Terry and Palin, Michael}, editor = {Gilliam, Terry and Jones, Terry}, editortype = {director}, publisher = {Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment}, type = {DVD}, address = {Culver City, CA}, edition = {special \bibstring{edition}}, annote = {This shows some typical features of a Video entry. It focusses on some of the DVD extras, so the actors providing the commentary appear in the author field. The directors go in the editor field, as usual, with the identifying string in editortype. The booktitle provides the film title in this instance -- the title in this case will appear in quotation marks rather than italicized, because of the presence of a booktitle. The titleaddon tells where in the DVD set the commentaries are to be found, and the type field gives the medium. The date field contains the date the DVD was released, and the original release date (origdate) isn't needed here, according to the Manual, because the entry cites the DVD extras rather than the film itself.} } @Book{cohen:schiff, title = {Jacob H. Schiff}, subtitle = {A Study in American Leadership}, year = 1999, author = {Cohen, Naomi~W.}, publisher = {University Press of New England and Brandeis University Press}, location = {Hanover, NH}, annote = {A Book with two publishers.} } @Article{conley:fifthgrade, author = {Conley, Alice}, title = {Fifth-Grade Boys' Decisions about Participation in Sports Activities}, issuetitle = {Non-subject-matter Outcomes of Schooling}, journaltitle = {Elementary School Journal}, note = {special issue}, year = 1999, volume = 99, editor = {Good, Thomas~L.}, number = 5, pages = {131--46}, shorttitle = {Fifth-Grade Boys' Decisions}, annote = {An Article that is part of a special issue of a journal. Title of the issue goes in issuetitle, editor of the issue in editor, and the sort of issue in note, with lowercase initial letter. Cf. good:wholeissue for how to refer to the special issue as a whole, rather than to one article in it, using a Periodical entry.} } @InCollection{contrib:contrib, author = {Contributor, Anna}, title = {Contribution}, booktitle = {Edited Volume}, publisher = {Publisher}, year = {forthcoming}, editor = {Editor, Ellen}, location = {Place}, annote = {A forthcoming essay in an InCollection entry.} } @Book{cook:sotweed, title = {Sotweed Redivivus, or The Planter's Looking-Glass}, year = 1730, author = {Cook, Ebenezer}, shortauthor = {{Ebenezer Cook}}, authortype = {anon?}, shorttitle = {Sotweed Redivivus}, note = {\bibstring{by} \mkbibquote{E.~C. Gent}}, location = {Annapolis}, annote = {A complicated Book entry. First, the author is unknown, but guessed at, hence the "anon?" in the authortype field. Because he's unknown, it may be best in this case to put extra curly brackets in shortauthor, so that in the short note form it's clearer who's at stake, though this is optional. The note field gives the author as printed in the book, presented as a citation inside quotation marks. If you remember to use \mkbibquote here, then appropriate punctuation will automatically be provided, so there's no more need for \custpunct or "plain" in the type field.} } @Book{cotton:manufacture, title = {An Inquiry into the Causes of the Present Long-Continued Depression in the Cotton Trade, with Suggestions for Its Improvement}, year = 1869, author = {{A Cotton Manufacturer}}, sortkey = {Cott}, location = {Bury, UK}, shorttitle = {Inquiry into the Causes}, annote = {A Book with a corporate author. The sortkey field helps alphabetize the entry in the bibliography, as the author starts with the indefinite article, which you want ignored in this context.} } @Book{creasey:ashe:blast, title = {A Blast of Trumpets}, year = 1976, author = {Creasey, John}, nameaddon = {Gordon Ashe, \bibstring{pseudonym}}, publisher = {Holt, Rinehart \& Winston}, location = {New York}, annote = {The first of 3 Books written by the same author under three different pseudonyms. You have considerable latitude in how to present these, but the method chosen here allows all three to be grouped together in the bibliography. Note the pseudonym in nameaddon, identified with the bibstring pseudonym. Also note ampersand in publisher, which prevents the two parts of the publisher's name from being taken as two different publishers.} } @Book{creasey:morton:hide, title = {Hide the Baron}, year = 1978, author = {Creasey, John}, nameaddon = {Anthony Morton, \bibstring{pseudonym}}, publisher = {Walker}, location = {New York}, annote = {Second of three Book entries by same author under different pseudonyms.} } @Book{creasey:york:death, title = {Death to My Killer}, year = 1966, author = {Creasey, John}, nameaddon = {Jeremy York, \bibstring{pseudonym}}, publisher = {Macmillan}, location = {New York}, annote = {Third of three Book entries by same author under different pseudonyms.} } @Misc{creel:house, author = {Creel, George}, entrysubtype = {letter}, title = {George Creel to Colonel House}, shortauthor = {\isdot}, origdate = {1918-09-25}, note = {Edward~M. House Papers}, organization = {Yale University Library}, annote = {An unpublished letter from an archive, presented in a Misc entry with an entrysubtype. The \isdot in the shortauthor field prevents duplication of the author's name in the short note form. You can achieve the same in the long note form by using the citation command \headlessfullcite. The manuscript collection is found in the note and organization fields -- depending on the entry, you can use note, organization, institution, and/or location, in ascending order of generality, though you should consistently put the most specific collection name in the note field. The date of the letter goes in origdate, and in the short note form you can use the macro \letterdatelong in the postnote field to identify the letter by this date, if it helps disambiguate.} } @Book{davenport:attention, title = {The Attention Economy}, subtitle = {Understanding the New Currency of Business}, year = 2001, author = {Davenport, Thomas~H. and Beck, John~C.}, publisher = {Harvard Business School Press}, addendum = {TK3 Reader e-book}, location = {Cambridge, MA}, annote = {Example of the use of addendum in a Book entry, in this case to identify that the work is an e-book.} } @Misc{dinkel:agassiz, author = {Dinkel, Joseph}, title = {description of Louis Agassiz written at the request of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz}, entrysubtype = {defined}, shorttitle = {description of Louis Agassiz}, note = {Agassiz Papers}, location = {Harvard University}, organization = {Houghton Library}, annote = {A manuscript presented in a Misc entry with a randomly-selected entrysubtype to distinguish it from a traditional Misc entry. The title and shorttitle begin with a generic term, hence the initial lowercase letters. This entry uses three fields to locate the manuscript, starting with note and ascending in generality through organization to location.} } @Book{donne:var, author = {Donne, John}, editor = {Stringer, Gary~A.}, title = {The \mkbibquote{Anniversaries} and the \mkbibquote{Epicedes and Obsequies}}, namea = {Stringer, Gary~A. and Pebworth, Ted-Larry}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, maintitle = {The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne}, year = 1995, volume = 6, location = {Bloomington}, shorttitle = {\mkbibquote{Anniversaries} and \mkbibquote{Epicedes and Obsequies}}, annote = {A Book entry with a maintitle editor (editor field) and a title editor (namea field). Also, inside an italicized title, all other titles are put in quotation marks, and using \mkbibquote will automatically move appropriate punctuation inside the closing quotation mark.} } @Book{dunn:revolutions, title = {Sister Revolutions}, subtitle = {French Lightning, American Light}, year = 1999, author = {Dunn, Susan}, publisher = {Faber \& Faber and Farrar, Straus \& Giroux}, location = {New York}, annote = {Book with two publishers, showing ampersands to prevent them being treated as four.} } @Manual{dyna:browser, title = {Dynatext, Electronic Book Indexer/Browser}, organization = {Electronic Book Technology Inc.}, sortkey = {Electronic}, address = {Providence, RI}, year = 1991, shorttitle = {Dynatext}, annote = {A technical manual presented in a Manual entry. In absence of named author the organization is printed twice, as author and as publisher. Note that, in the absence of an author, you must provide a sortkey field to help with alphabetization.} } @Book{eliot:pound, title = {Literary Essays}, options = {useauthor=false}, year = 1953, author = {Pound, Ezra}, editor = {Eliot, T.~S.}, publisher = {New Directions}, location = {New York}, annote = {A Book listed by its (famous) editor rather than by its (equally-famous) author. The options field makes it happen. This is a simple example, but remember that if you have a namea defined then biblatex-chicago-df will use that, and then you'll need to provide a shorteditor for the short note form and sortkey to help with alphabetization.} } @InCollection{ellet:galena, author = {Ellet, Elizabeth~F.~L.}, title = {By Rail and Stage to Galena}, crossref = {prairie:state}, pages = {271--79}, subtitle = {}, annote = {First of three InCollection entries cross-referencing the same Collection. Since it is cited first in my example file, its long note reference contains the full bibliographical data for the Collection entry, whereas the subsequent two long notes contain abbreviated references to the Collection. Cf. keating:dearborn and lippincott:chicago. All three have an abbreviated reference in the bibliography. If you don't want this space-saving measure, don't use crossref or xref. Also, note empty subtitle field, to prevent inheritance from parent entry.} } @Book{emerson:nature, title = {Nature}, year = 1985, origdate = 1836, author = {Emerson, Ralph Waldo}, publisher = {Beacon}, note = {a facsimile of the first edition with an introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan}, location = {Boston}, annote = {A reprinted Book, in this case a facsimile, with the note field giving the relevant information. The origdate field gives date of original publication. Note use of lowercase letter to start note field.} } @InReference{ency:britannica, title = {Encyclopaedia Britannica}, keywords = {original}, edition = 15, lista = {Salvation}, annote = {A simple InReference entry, citing a well-known reference work, and therefore not to appear in the bibliography. The lista field gives the name of the (alphabetically-arranged) article from which the citation is taken.} } @Video{episode:tv, title = {Episode Title}, titleaddon = {series 5, episode 2}, entrysubtype = {tv}, date = {2000/2007}, origdate = 2004, booktitle = {Series Title}, publisher = {Production Company}, type = {DVD}, annote = {The Manual doesn't, that I can find, provide guidance for citing television programs, so I have guessed, using the analogy of films, at how to present one using the Video entry type. The title of the episode will be presented within quotation marks, as there is a booktitle presenting the name of the TV series. The titleaddon gives details about the episode, and the type gives the medium, as usual. The origdate is the year of original transmission, while the date provides the year range for the whole series, though it would perhaps make more sense in this situation to provide the date the DVD was released, instead. The entrysubtype isn't necessary, but may be of some use in the author-date style.} } @BookInBook{euripides:orestes, title = {Orestes}, year = 1958, booktitle = {Euripides}, maintitle = {The Complete Greek Tragedies}, nameb = {Arrowsmith, William}, volume = 4, author = {Euripides}, editor = {Grene, David and Lattimore, Richmond}, publisher = uchp, pages = {185--288}, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A work from antiquity, cited by pages in a modern edition, hence not needing "classical" in entrysubtype. Since the titles of such works are uniformly italicized, we need to use a BookInBook entry with a title and a booktitle ("book within a book") and in this case also a maintitle. Note the editors of the maintitle (editor field), and the translator of the title (nameb field).} } @Online{evanston:library, author = {{Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees}}, shortauthor = {{Evanston Public Library}}, title = {Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000--2010}, subtitle = {A Decade of Outreach}, organization = {Evanston Public Library}, url = {http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html}, urldate = {2002-07-18}, shorttitle = {Strategic Plan}, annote = {An Online entry, with a corporate author, hence extra curly braces in author and shortauthor. The title field holds the title of the specific web page, while the organization field holds the title or owner of the site as a whole.} } @Book{feydeau:farces, title = {Four Farces by Georges Feydeau}, publisher = uchp, year = 1970, translator = {Shapiro, Norman R.}, author = {Feydeau, Georges}, location = {Chicago}, shorttitle = {Four Farces}, annote = {A standard Book entry, but one which may prompt you to use the \headlessfullcite citation command for your first reference to it, as the title contains the author's name which needn't be repeated, though there's no harm in doing so.} } @Article{friedman:learning, author = {Friedman, James~W. and Mezzetti, Claudio}, title = {Learning in Games by Random Sampling}, journaltitle = {Journal of Economic Theory}, date = {2001-05}, volume = 98, number = 1, doi = {10.1006/jeth.2000.2694}, url = {http://www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/jeth.2000.2694}, shorttitle = {Learning in Games}, annote = {Standard Article entry with a doi and a url provided.} } @Book{furet:passing:eng, title = {The Passing of an Illusion}, year = 1999, author = {Furet, François}, userf = {furet:passing:fr}, translator = {Furet, Deborah}, publisher = uchp, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A translation, with the userf field referring to the original. In notes, this has no effect, but in the bibliography the translation and original are presented in the same entry, connected (in the absence of an origlanguage field) by the string "Originally published as".} } @Book{furet:passing:fr, title = {Le passé d'une illusion}, year = 1995, keywords = {original}, author = {Furet, François}, publisher = {Éditions Robert Laffont}, location = {Paris}, annote = {The original of the previous entry. The keywords field prevents it being printed separately in the bibliography.} } @Article{garaud:gatine, author = {Garaud, Marcel}, title = {Recherches sur les défrichements dans la Gâtine poitevine aux XIe et XIIe siècles}, journaltitle = {Bulletin de la Société des antiquaires de l'Ouest}, year = 1967, volume = 9, series = 4, pages = {11--27}, shorttitle = {Recherches sur les défrichements}, annote = {An Article in a journaltitle which is into its 4th series. Note preservation of French capitalization.} } @Article{garrett, author = {Garrett, Marvin~P.}, title = {Language and Design in \mkbibemph{Pippa Passes}}, journaltitle = {Victorian Poetry}, year = 1975, volume = 13, number = 1, pages = {47--60}, location = {West Virginia University}, annote = {An Article from a journaltitle that may not be immediately recognizable to your readership, or indeed that may be shared by a number of different journals, so you add a location field to tell where the journaltitle originates. Also note formatting in the title field.} } @Article{gibbard, author = {Gibbard, Allan}, title = {Morality in Living}, subtitle = {Korsgaard's Kantian Lectures}, journaltitle = {Ethics}, year = 1999, volume = 110, number = 1, pages = {140--164}, titleaddon = {\bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{The Sources of Normativity}, by Christine M. Korsgaard}, annote = {A book review as an Article, because it has a specific title (title field) as well as a generic one (titleaddon field). Note \bibstring macro and formatting in the titleaddon.} } @Periodical{good:wholeissue, issuetitle = {Non-subject-matter Outcomes of Schooling}, title = {Elementary School Journal}, year = 1999, volume = 99, number = 5, editor = {Good, Thomas~L.}, note = {special issue}, annote = {A reference to an entire special issue of a journal, using a Periodical entry. The issue's title here goes in the issuetitle field, while the name of the journal goes in title rather than journaltitle. The nature of the issue once again goes in the note field, with an initial lowercase letter. Cf. conley:fifthgrade for an example of an Article entry presenting one article from this special issue.} } @Review{gourmet:052006, journaltitle = {Gourmet}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {2000-05}, title = {Kitchen Notebook}, sortkey = {Gourmet}, shorttitle = {Kitchen Notebook, May 2000}, annote = {A regular column in a magazine, presented in a Review entry (with "magazine" entrysubtype) because there is no specific title, only the generic one of the name of the column, which is nonetheless capitalized. Since there is no author, the journaltitle will be used instead, in notes, short notes, and bibliography. Also, note the sortkey, needed to alphabetize by the journaltitle rather than by the title.} } @Audio{greek:filmstrip, title = {The Greek and Roman World}, date = 1977, publisher = {Society for Visual Education}, type = {filmstrip}, address = {Chicago}, sortkey = {Greek and Roman}, annote = {A standard Audio entry presenting a filmstrip. The type field explains what sort of content it is, and the sortkey helps with alphabetization, preventing biblatex from using "The" for that purpose.} } @InReference{grove:sibelius, title = {The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians}, author = {Hepokoski, James}, lista = {Sibelius, Jean}, url = {http://www.grovemusic.com/}, urldate = {2002-01-03}, sortkey = {New Grove}, annote = {An example of an online InReference entry, which I have allowed, as an example, to appear in the bibliography. The author field refers to the author of the specific entry in lista, and will be printed in parentheses after the name of that entry. If you need to provide the author or editor of a reference work as a whole, then you should probably use a Book entry. (Cf. schellinger:novel.) Note also the short citation, where you can now put an alphabetized article title in the postnote field, and it will be formatted for you automatically in InReference entries.} } @Video{handel:messiah, title = {Messiah}, date = 1988, titleaddon = {selections}, type = {VHS}, editor = {{Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus}}, editortype = {none}, editora = {Shaw, Robert}, editoratype = {none}, author = {Handel, George Frederic}, publisher = {Video Treasures}, address = {Batavia, OH}, annote = {This is a videotape of an oratorio, presented therefore as a Video entry rather than as Music. The composer goes in author, the performers and conductor in editor and editora. Note the "none" in both editortypes, as the context presumably makes it clear what role Shaw is playing. The usual type field identifies the medium.} } @Book{harley:cartography, title = {Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies}, year = 1994, maintitle = {The History of Cartography}, volume = {2}, part = {2}, editor = {Harley, J.~B. and Woodward, David}, publisher = uchp, location = {Chicago}, shorttitle = {Cartography in East and Southeast Asia}, annote = {A Book entry, with its maintitle's logical volumes published in separate physical parts, hence a volume and a part number. Cf. lach:asia.} } @TechReport{herwign:office, options = {useprefix=true}, author = {{van} Herwijnen, Eric}, title = {Future Office Systems Requirements}, sortname = {Van}, institution = {CERN DD internal note}, year = 1988, month = 11, annote = {A Report entry, the type already set by using the TechReport alias instead of Report. The institution field identifies the issuer of the report.} } @Video{hitchcock:nbynw, title = {Crop Duster Attack}, booktitle = {North by Northwest}, date = 2000, origdate = 1959, editor = {Hitchcock, Alfred}, editortype = {director}, publisher = {Warner Home Video}, type = {DVD}, address = {Burbank, CA}, options = {useauthor=false,useeditor=false}, annote = {This Video entry cites one scene (title) from a film (booktitle). Here, the entry in the bibliography will be alphabetized by the name of the scene, as the useeditor=false option turns off the printing of the editor at the head of the entry. The editortype field identifies the editor's role, while the origdate and date give the original year of release and the year of DVD release, respectively.} } @Article{hlatky:hrt, author = {Hlatky, Mark~A. and Boothroyd, Derek and Vittinghoff, Eric and Sharp, Penny and Whooley, Mary~A.}, title = {Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy}, subtitle = {Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial}, journaltitle = {Journal of the American Medical Association}, date = {2002-02-06}, volume = 287, number = 5, url = {http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo}, urldate = {2002-01-07}, shorttitle = {Quality of Life and Depressive Symptoms}, annote = {Standard Article entry with url provided. 4 authors provokes use of "et al." in notes, though not in bibliography, because the settings for maxnames and minnames have been changed in the \printbibliography command at the end of sample.tex.} } @Book{horsley:prosodies, title = {On the Prosodies of the Greek and Latin Languages}, year = 1796, author = {Horsley, Samuel}, authortype = {anon}, shorttitle = {Prosodies}, annote = {An anonymous Book, with the author known, though not named on the title page. The string "anon" goes in the authortype field.} } @Misc{house:papers, author = {House, Edward~M\adddot\addcomma}, title = {Papers}, note = {Yale University Library}, entrysubtype = {letter}, annote = {An example of a Misc entry (with an entrysubtype) specifically for a bibliography, assuming that more than one item has been cited from this same collection. The individual items cited would look like creel:house, and in such a case would not appear in the bibliography. This entry also illustrates the use of a comma in a bibliography entry to set off a middle initial from a following plain-text title, only used when the period alone might lead to ambiguity. Cf. Manual, 17.231. The \adddot and \addcomma commands you see here are the most effective way of doing this.} } @Letter{jackson:paulina:letter, author = {Jackson, Paulina}, title = {Paulina Jackson to John Pepys Junior}, booktitle = {The Letters of Samuel Pepys and His Family Circle}, origdate = {1676-10-03}, publisher = {Clarendon Press}, year = 1955, editor = {Heath, Helen Truesdell}, shorttitle = {to John Pepys Junior}, pages = {\bibstring{number} 42}, location = {Oxford}, annote = {An individual letter from a published collection, hence the Letter entry, designed specifically for this sort of reference. The title field should always look like this, and the author won't be printed in notes, as this field already specifies it. The shorttitle is specific to this entry form, eventually printing the author's surname followed by the contents of this field, which again is specified for this type of reference. The origdate field holds the date of the original letter, while the year (or date) holds the date of the publication of the collection as a whole. The pages field in this example holds not the page, but the number in the collection -- notice the bibstring -- while the booktitle is the title of that published collection. If you refer to more than one letter from such a collection, then only the name of the collection appears in the bibliography, and you could use the keywords field to suppress the printing of each individual letter there. Cf. white:ross:memo, white:russ, and white:total to see how this might look.} } @Book{james:ambassadors, title = {The Ambassadors}, year = 1996, origdate = 1909, author = {James, Henry}, publisher = {Project Gutenberg}, url = {ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/ambas10.txt}, annote = {Presents an online edition of a book which, not being inherently an online text, still uses a Book entry. The origdate field is the date of the print publication of the text that is now online.} } @InCollection{keating:dearborn, author = {Keating, William~H.}, title = {Fort Dearborn and Chicago}, crossref = {prairie:state}, subtitle = {}, pages = {84--87}, annote = {Second of three InCollection pieces from the same Collection, using the crossref field. Even in the first, long note, the data for the whole collection will be presented in abbreviated form, since ellet:galena (which see) has already been cited.} } @Article{kern, author = {Kern, W.}, title = {Waar verzamelde Pigafetta zijn Maleise woorden?}, usere = {Where did Pigafetta collect his Malaysian words?}, journaltitle = {Tijdschrift voor Indische taal-, land- en volkenkunde}, year = 1938, volume = 78, pages = {271--73}, shorttitle = {Pigafetta}, annote = {An Article with a Dutch title that may need translating for a significant portion of your readership. You give the translation in the usere field, using sentence-style capitalization. } } @Article{kimluu:diethyl, author = {Kim Luu, Diane-Dinh}, title = {Diethylstilbestrol and Media Coverage of the \mkbibquote{Morning After} Pill}, journaltitle = {Lost in Thought: Undergraduate Research Journal}, year = 1999, volume = 2, pages = {65--70}, location = {Indiana University South Bend}, annote = {Another Article from a journaltitle that may need further specification for your readership, hence the use of the location field. Note also the quoted phrase inside the title.} } @Review{kozinn:review, journaltitle = {New York Times}, year = 2000, author = {Kozinn, Allan}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, title = {\bibstring{reviewof} concert performance \bibstring{by} Timothy Fain (violin) \bibstring{and} Steven Beck (piano), 92nd Street Y, New York}, month = 4, day = 21, pages = {Weekend section}, shorttitle = {\bibstring{reviewof} Fain \bibstring{and} Beck concert}, annote = {A typical Review entry from a newspaper, with "magazine" in entrysubtype. Note the use of the bibstrings in title and shorttitle, which help but do not complete the internationalization of the entry. Beginning the fields without bibstrings and with lower-case letters in a chosen language (e.g. "review of") is possibly a better alternative. Note also the pages field, which gives a more general reference than page number, as sometimes the latter might change between editions.} } @Book{lach:asia, title = {The Scholarly Disciplines}, maintitle = {Asia in the Making of Europe}, year = 1977, volume = {2}, part = {3}, author = {Lach, Donald}, publisher = uchp, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A Book with a maintitle, its logical volumes published in several physical parts, hence both a volume and part number. Cf. harley:cartography.} } @Article{lakeforester:pushcarts, journaltitle = {Lake Forester}, date = {2000-03-23}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, title = {Pushcarts Evolve to Trendy Kiosks}, sortkey = {Lake Forester}, location = {Lake Forest, IL}, shorttitle = {Pushcarts Evolve}, annote = {An Article entry from a newspaper, using "magazine" in entrysubtype. The article doesn't have an author, hence the journaltitle will be used at the head of the entry in notes, short notes, and bibliography. The newspaper might not be well known, so the location field helps your readers out in this case. The sortkey field ensures that the entry is alphabetized by journaltitle rather than by title.} } @CustomC{lecarre:cornwell, author = {Cornwell, David John Moore}, title = {Le Carr{\'e}, John}, annote = {A CustomC entry providing an alphabetized cross reference to a separate entry in the bibliography. (See next entry.)} } @Book{lecarre:quest, title = {The Quest for Karla}, publisher = {Knopf}, year = 1982, author = {Le Carr{\'e}, John}, sortname = {Lec}, userc = {lecarre:cornwell}, nameaddon = {David John Moore Cornwell}, location = {New York}, options = {useprefix=true}, annote = {A fairly standard Book entry, with, however, the pseudonym in the author field and the real name in nameaddon. This isn't strictly necessary in this case, as one normally refers to this author by the pseudonym, but if it is of particular interest this is how you would present such information. The userc field points to a CustomC entry providing a cross-reference from the author's real name to his pseudonym, and ensures that this cross-reference will be printed if this parent entry is cited.} } @Artwork{leo:madonna, author = {{Leonardo da Vinci}}, shortauthor = {Leonardo}, title = {Madonna of the Rocks}, type = {oil on canvas}, institution = {Louvre}, year = {1480s}, note = {78 x 48.5 in\adddot}, location = {Paris}, annote = {A typical Artwork entry. Note the type field and the fact that it begins with a lowercase letter, allowing biblatex to capitalize it contextually when needed.} } @Book{levistrauss:savage, title = {The Savage Mind}, year = 1962, author = {Lévi-Strauss, Claude}, publisher = {Weidenfeld \& Nicolson}, location = {Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London}, annote = {A standard Book entry, showing a kludge in the location field for including two publishers in two different countries. The simplest thing to do in such a situation is to pick the one nearest to you and just use it, but this may be necessary sometimes.} } @Article{lewis, author = {Lewis, Judith}, title = {\mkbibquote{'Tis a Misfortune to Be a Great Ladie}}, subtitle = {Maternal Mortality in the British Aristocracy, 1558--1959}, journaltitle = {Journal of British Studies}, year = 1998, volume = 37, pages = {26--53}, shorttitle = {\mkbibquote{'Tis a Misfortune to Be a Great Ladie}}, annote = {An Article entry showing a quotation inside a title that will itself take quotation marks in bibliography and notes. (You may need to experiment with some kernings if the cluster of quotation marks at the start is unreadable.) Using \mkbibquote will ensure that all the punctuation comes out right.} } @InCollection{lippincott:chicago, author = {Lippincott, Sarah Clarke}, title = {Chicago}, subtitle = {}, crossref = {prairie:state}, pages = {362--70}, annote = {Third and last of the InCollection entries referring to the same Collection. The first, long note will have abbreviated data for the collection, because other citations of entries in that collection have already occurred. The bibliography entries of all three are also abbreviated. Cf. ellet:galena and keating:dearborn.} } @Video{loc:city, title = {The Life of a City}, subtitle = {Early Films of New York, 1898--1906}, author = {{Library of Congress}}, options = {skipbib}, type = {MPEG}, url = {http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html}, urldate = {2001-08-14}, annote = {This Video entry provides the online location of the weed:flatiron film, providing it as an MPEG file for download. Here, the options field prevents this from printing independently of the other entry, which contains a manual citation of this entry in its addendum field.} } @Article{loften:hamlet, author = {Loften, Peter}, title = {Reverberations between Wordplay and Swordplay in \mkbibemph{Hamlet}}, journaltitle = {Aeolian Studies}, year = 1989, volume = 2, pages = {12--29}, shorttitle = {Reverberations}, annote = {An Article entry with a formatted title within its title.} } @Book{maisonneuve:relations, title = {Les relations publiques}, subtitle = {Dans une société en mouvance}, year = 1998, author = {Maisonneuve, Danielle and Lamarche, Jean-François and St-Amand, Yves}, publisher = {Presses de l'Université de Québec}, location = {Sainte-Foy, QC}, annote = {Standard Book entry, maintaining French capitalization.} } @Book{mchugh:wake, title = {Annotations to \mkbibquote{Finnegans Wake}}, year = 1980, author = {McHugh, Roland}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, location = {Baltimore}, annote = {A Book with a quoted title inside an italicized one. If you use \mkbibquote, you no longer need to worry about providing a \custpunct or a toggle in the type field.} } @Article{mcmillen:antebellum, author = {McMillen, Sally~G.}, title = {Antebellum Southern Fathers and the Health Care of Children}, journaltitle = {Journal of Southern History}, year = 1994, volume = 60, number = 3, pages = {513--32}, shorttitle = {Antebellum Southern Fathers}, annote = {Standard Article entry, with a number as well as a volume.} } @Book{meredith:letters, title = {The Letters of George Meredith}, publisher = {Clarendon Press}, year = 1970, author = {Meredith, George}, shorttitle = {Letters}, editor = {Cline, C.~L.}, volumes = 3, location = {Oxford}, annote = {A published collection of letters referred to by page rather than by individual letter, hence using a Book entry rather than Letter. You may wish to use the \headlessfullcite command for the first reference, avoiding the repetition of the author's name. Also, you should be aware that, because there are three volumes of letters, the postnote field of any cite command should contain both volume and page references, as in "2:234". The postnote will follow the shorttitle without intervening punctuation, as per the specification.} } @Reference{mla:style, title = {MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing}, options = {useeditor=false}, editor = {Gibaldi, Joseph}, year = 1998, publisher = {Modern Language Association of America}, edition = 2, location = {New York}, annote = {A Reference entry, which I use here instead of InReference because this work will be cited by section number, rather than by alphabetized entry. Once again, I have allowed this to appear in the bibliography, hence the options field, which prevents biblatex from alphabetizing the entry under Gibaldi instead of MLA} } @Article{morgenson:market, journaltitle = {New York Times}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, pages = {sec. 3}, date = {2000-04-23}, author = {Morgenson, Gretchen}, title = {Applying a Discount to Good Earnings News}, titleaddon = {Market Watch}, shorttitle = {Applying a Discount}, annote = {An Article entry (entrysubtype "magazine") presenting a regular column in a newspaper, which column also has an individual, specific title. The latter goes in the title field and the former in the titleaddon field. Note also the reference to the section in the pages field.} } @PhdThesis{murphy:silent, author = {Murphy, Priscilla Coit}, title = {What a Book Can Do}, subtitle = {\mkbibemph{Silent Spring} and Media-Borne Public Debate}, school = {University of North Carolina}, year = 2000, annote = {A Thesis entry, using the PhdThesis alias to define the type field. The school field is an alias for biblatex's institution. Note also the formatting of a title within a quoted title.} } @Unpublished{nass:address, author = {Nass, Clifford}, title = {Why Researchers Treat On-Line Journals Like Real People}, note = {keynote address, annual meeting of the Council of Science Editors}, location = {San Antonio, TX}, date = {2000-05-06/2000-05-09}, annote = {A typical Unpublished entry, presenting an unpublished piece that isn't part of a formal archive, which would usually require a Misc entry. The note field provides the details of what sort of piece it is, and whence it came, and begins with a lowercase letter. Note the date range in the date field.} } @Book{natrecoff:camera, title = {The KH-4B Camera System}, year = 1967, author = {{National Reconnaissance Office}}, publisher = {National Photographic Interpretation Center}, addendum = {now declassified and also available online}, location = {Washington, DC}, url = {http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/imint/kh-4%20camera%20system.htm}, annote = {A technical manual presented in a Book entry. The addendum gives extra details, and there's a url for easier access. Note initial lowercase letter in addendum, and corporate author with extra curly braces.} } @Review{nyt:obittrevor, author = {\isdot}, title = {obituary of Claire Trevor}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, journaltitle = {New York Times}, sortkey = {Obit}, pages = {national edition}, date = {2000-04-10}, annote = {First of two alternative ways to present an obituary in a newspaper, both using the Review entry type (entrysubtype "magazine"), because there is no specific title, only the generic "obituary of"... In this first one, the title heads the entry, so the author is defined by the \isdot macro, printing nothing, which also means that the short note will also begin with the title. The title begins with a lowercase letter, allowing biblatex to capitalize when needed. The sortkey field is needed because otherwise the bibliography entry will be alphabetized by \isdot. Note the pages field, with the edition specified.} } @Review{nyt:trevorobit, journaltitle = {New York Times}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {2000-04-10}, title = {obituary of Claire Trevor}, pages = {national edition}, sortkey = {New York Times}, annote = {Second way to present an obituary in a Review entry (entrysubtype "magazine"). Here, without an author, the journaltitle will head the entry in notes, short notes, and bibliography. Once again, the title begins with a lowercase letter. The sortkey field is again needed to alphabetize by journaltitle.} } @Music{nytrumpet:art, title = {Art of the Trumpet}, date = 1982, author = {{The New York Trumpet Ensemble, with Edward Carroll (trumpet) and Edward Brewer (organ)}}, shortauthor = {{New York Trumpet Ensemble}}, number = {PVT 7183}, series = {Vox/Turnabout}, publisher = {The Moss Music Group}, howpublished = {\texttt{\small\textcircledP}\ and \texttt{\small\textcopyright}}, sortkey = {New York Trumpet}, type = {compact disc}, annote = {This can be considered an example of a satisfyingly full Music entry, providing nearly all pertinent information, although the composers are missing on what is presumably a compilation CD. The performers take the composers' place in the author field, the series and number field give the label information, and the type field gives the medium. The publisher of the label is also present, along with the date and the howpublished field, presenting, as the Manual suggests, the nature of the copyrights asserted by the publisher. (The pubstate field, only in this entry type, could serve as a synonym for howpublished.)} } @InReference{oed:cdrom, title = {Oxford English Dictionary}, publisher = oup, edition = 2, note = {CD-ROM, version 2.0}, annote = {An example of a reference work on CD-ROM, presented in an InReference entry.} } @Article{osborne:poison, journaltitle = {Salon}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {2000-03-29}, author = {Osborne, Lawrence}, title = {Poison Pen}, titleaddon = {\bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach}, \bibstring{by} Alice Kaplan}, url = {http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/29/kaplan/index.html}, urldate = {2001-07-10}, annote = {A review from a magazine, but with both specific (title field) and generic (titleaddon field) titles, hence presented in an Article entry, entrysubtype "magazine." Note bibstrings and formatting in the titleaddon. The entry also gives a url to the online version.} } @Book{palmatary:pottery, title = {The Pottery of Marajó Island, Brazil}, year = 1950, author = {Palmatary, Helen~C.}, series = {Transactions of the American Philosophical Society}, number = {\bibstring{newseries}, 39, pt. 3}, location = {Philadelphia}, annote = {A Book entry, with series and number fields. The name of the series alone goes in that field, with any other information (like the bibstring newseries) going in the number field.} } @Book{pelikan:christian, title = {The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition}, year = 1971, maintitle = {The Christian Tradition}, mainsubtitle = {A History of the Development of Doctrine}, volume = 1, author = {Pelikan, Jaroslav}, publisher = uchp, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A Book entry showing one volume of a multi-volume maintitle.} } @Patent{petroff:impurity, title = {Blocked Impurity Band Detectors}, date = {1986-02-04}, origdate = {1980-10-23}, author = {Petroff, M.~D. and Stapelbroek, M.~G.}, number = {4,586,960}, type = {patentus}, annote = {A Patent entry, with the patent number in the number field, a \bibstring in the type field, the filing date in origdate, and the issue date in date. Note that the \bibstring in the type field is not identified as such -- the formatting macros, in this instance, detect that it is a \bibstring and treat it accordingly. This functionality isn't widespread, so you shouldn't always count on it being present elsewhere.} } @InBook{phibbs:diary, author = {Phibbs, Brendan}, title = {Herrlisheim}, subtitle = {Diary of a Battle}, booktitle = {The Other Side of Time}, booksubtitle = {A Combat Surgeon in World War II\@}, pages = {117--63}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, year = 1987, address = {Boston}, annote = {A named part of a larger book, hence we use the InBook entry type. You can provide either a page range in a pages field or a chapter number in a chapter field.} } @Book{pirumova, author = {Pirumova, N.~M.}, title = {The Zemstvo Liberal Movement}, subtitle = {Its Social Roots and Evolution to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century}, publisher = {Izdatel'stvo \mkbibquote{Nauka}}, year = 1977, language = {russian}, location = {Moscow}, annote = {A Book entry presenting a Russian work, but giving the English translation of the title rather than the original, making it easier for a readership assumed to be without Russian to parse. In such a case, the language of the original goes in the language field. Also note the quotation marks around part of the publisher's name, with biblatex providing the punctuation.} } @BookInBook{plato:republic:gr, title = {Republic}, entrysubtype = {classical}, year = 1902, volume = 4, author = {Plato}, editor = {Burnet, J.}, booktitle = {Clitophon, Republic, Timaeus, Critias}, maintitle = {Opera}, publisher = {Clarendon Press}, series = {Oxford Classical Texts}, pages = {327--621}, location = {Oxford}, annote = {A work from antiquity, which will be cited by the traditional divisions, and which therefore requires the "classical" entrysubtype. The title of such a work being italicized, it needs a BookInBook entry, and it has all three sorts of title, plus a series to boot.} } @SuppBook{polakow:afterw, author = {Polakow, Valerie}, title = {Lives on the Edge}, subtitle = {Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America}, afterword = {yes}, year = 1993, publisher = uchp, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A standard example of a SuppBook entry, specifically citing an afterword written by the main author of the book. Note that you need only put something in the afterword field (and not define a foreword or introduction field) to make the reference work.} } @Online{powell:email, author = {Powell, John}, date = {1998-04-23}, titleaddon = {e-mail to Grapevine mailing list}, url = {http://www.electriceditors.net/grapevine/issues/83.txt}, shorttitle = {\autocap{e}-mail to Grapevine mailing list}, annote = {An Online entry without a specific title, hence with no title field, only a titleaddon. Note the initial lowercase letter in the titleaddon, and the \autocap macro in shorttitle, because the Online type doesn't automate this for you in title or shorttitle. Note also the absence of any organization or owner of the site as whole.} } @Collection{prairie:state, booktitle = {Prairie State}, title = {Prairie State}, booksubtitle = {Impressions of Illinois, 1673--1967, by Travelers and Other Observers}, subtitle = {Impressions of Illinois, 1673--1967, by Travelers and Other Observers}, year = 1968, editor = {Angle, Paul~M.}, publisher = uchp, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A Collection entry, the one that has been cross-referenced by three other entries in this bibliography. Note the usual duplication of title and booktitle in a parent entry when the children use crossref, and note the editor instead of an author. If more than one child cross-references the parent, the parent will be printed in the bibliography even if not independently cited.} } @SuppBook{prose:intro, author = {Prose, Francine}, bookauthor = {Wallraff, Barbara}, title = {Word Court}, subtitle = {Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done}, year = 2000, type = {introduction to}, location = {New York}, publisher = {Harcourt}, annote = {A SuppBook entry where an author provides an introduction to someone else's book. That someone else goes in bookauthor. Instead of the mechanism using a defined introduction field, here I use the alternative of putting the type of supplemental material in the type field, with the appropriate preposition, and starting with a lowercase letter. Note that this method isn't portable across languages, but it may help you to identify the less common types of supplements.} } @Review{ratliff:review, author = {Ratliff, Ben}, title = {\bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil}, \bibstring{by} Hermano Vianna, \parteditandtrans John Charles Chasteen}, journaltitle = {Lingua Franca}, date = {1999-04}, volume = 9, pages = {B13--B14}, shorttitle = {\bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{The Mystery of Samba}}, annote = {A Review entry, this time from a scholarly journaltitle, hence no entrysubtype needed. Note the bibstrings in title and shorttitle -- you could also start them with lowercase letters -- and the formatting in both fields of the title of the book reviewed. Most especially note the use of \parteditandtrans, which allows the editor and translator of the reviewed book to be identified by the correct strings in notes and bibliography.} } @Article{reaves:rosen, journaltitle = {Time}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, author = {Reaves, Jessica}, date = {2001-03-14}, title = {A Weighty Issue}, subtitle = {Ever-Fatter Kids}, titleaddon = {interview with James Rosen}, url = {http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,102443,00.html}, annote = {A magazine interview with its own, specific title, therefore requiring an Article entry with "magazine" entrysubtype. The generic title goes in titleaddon, with a lowercase letter at the start. The author of this article is different from the interviewee, which suggests a certain flexibility in the Manual's requirements for such things. The url field gives the online location.} } @Book{rodman:walk, title = {Walk on the Wild Side}, publisher = {Delacorte Press}, year = 1997, author = {Rodman, Dennis}, note = {with Michael Silver}, location = {New York}, annote = {A Book entry with a named ghostwriter, given in the note field.} } @MastersThesis{ross:thesis, author = {Ross, Dorothy}, title = {The Irish-Catholic Immigrant, 1880--1900}, subtitle = {A Study in Social Mobility}, school = {Columbia University}, year = {\bibstring{nodate}}, annote = {A Thesis entry with its type pre-defined by the alias MastersThesis. The nodate bibstring (which gives n.d. in English) may be used in almost any entry type if you can't find a date.} } @Article{rozner:liberation, journaltitle = {Voprosy istorii}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, year = 1979, author = {Rozner, I.~G.}, title = {The War of Liberation of the Ukrainian People in 1648--1654 and Russia}, number = 4, language = {russian}, pages = {51--64}, shorttitle = {War of Liberation}, annote = {This is a Russian journal, with its issues defined not by volume number but by year, hence for the purposes of biblatex-chicago-df it's an Article with a "magazine" entrysubtype. The journaltitle is in transliterated Russian, but the article title is translated into English, hence the original language must be provided in the language field.} } @Book{schellinger:novel, title = {Encyclopedia of the Novel}, publisher = {Fitzroy Dearborn}, year = 1998, editor = {Schellinger, Paul and Hudson, Christopher and Rijsberman, Marijk}, location = {Chicago}, annote = {As this isn't one of the universally-known reference works, its entry will have (in the absence of an author) the editors at its head, hence the choice of Book rather than Reference.} } @Audio{schubert:muellerin, title = {Das Wandern (Wandering)}, date = 1895, shorttitle = {Das Wandern}, booktitle = {Die sch\"one M\"ullerin (The Maid of the Mill)}, maintitle = {First Vocal Album \mkbibemph{(for high voice)}}, author = {Schubert, Franz}, publisher = {G.~Schirmer}, address = {New York}, annote = {An Audio entry presenting a published musical score. Note the presence of all three sorts of title, and the "reverse italics" in the maintitle.} } @Book{schweitzer:bach, title = {J. S. Bach}, year = 1966, origdate = 1911, author = {Schweitzer, Albert}, translator = {Newman, Ernest}, publisher = {Dover}, pubstate = {reprint}, location = {New York}, annote = {A reprinted Book, hence the string "reprint" in the pubstate field, and the original date of publication in the origdate field.} } @Book{sechzer:women, title = {Women and Mental Health}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, year = 1996, editor = {Sechzer, Jeri A. and Pfaffilin, S.~M. and Denmark, F.~L. and Griffin, A. and Blumenthal, S.~J.}, location = {Baltimore}, annote = {A Book without an author, but with more than 3 editors, hence the "et al." mechanism comes into play in notes, though not in the bibliography.} } @Book{sereny:cries, title = {Cries Unheard}, subtitle = {Why Children Kill; The Story of Mary Bell}, year = 1999, author = {Sereny, Gitta}, publisher = {Metropolitan Books and Henry Holt}, location = {New York}, annote = {A Book with two subtitles, the second separated by a semicolon, according to the spec.} } @Article{sewall:letter, author = {Sewall, Jonathan}, title = {Letter of Jonathan Sewall}, journaltitle = {Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society}, shortauthor = {\isdot}, date = {1896-01}, volume = 10, pages = {412--15}, series = 2, annote = {A letter presented as an article in a scholarly journal, hence the Article entry. You could use the \headlessfullcite command for the first citation to suppress the repetition of the author's name, and the \isdot macro in the shorttitle field does the same in the short note form. Note plain number in series field of an Article entry.} } @Misc{shapey:partita, author = {Shapey, Ralph}, title = {\mkbibquote{Partita for Violin and Thirteen Players}}, titleaddon = {score}, entrysubtype = {music}, date = 1966, note = {Special Collections}, organization = {Joseph Regenstein Library}, institution = {University of Chicago}, annote = {An example of an unpublished musical score, presented in a Misc (with entrysubtype) rather than an Audio entry. The title, being more specific than many archival documents, is manually given quotation marks, as may at times be necessary in such entries.} } @Book{silver:gawain, title = {Sir Gawain and the Green Knight}, publisher = uchp, year = 1974, translator = {Silverstein, Theodore}, location = {Chicago}, annote = {Here, neither author nor editor are available, so the Book entry will start with the translator.} } @InCollection{sirosh:visualcortex, author = {Sirosh, J. and Miikkulainen, R. and Bednar, J.~A.}, title = {Self-Organization of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex}, booktitle = {Lateral Interactions in the Cortex}, booksubtitle = {Structure and Function}, publisher = {UTCS Neural Networks Research Group}, year = 1996, editor = {Sirosh, J. and Miikkulainen, R. and Choe, Y.}, url = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/web-pubs/htmlbook96/}, urldate = {2001-08-27}, location = {Austin, TX}, shorttitle = {Self-Organization}, annote = {Part of a collection with its own title, hence requiring an InCollection entry.} } @Book{soltes:georgia, title = {Georgia}, subtitle = {Art and Civilization through the Ages}, publisher = {Philip Wilson}, year = 1999, editor = {Soltes, Ori Z.}, location = {London}, annote = {A Book entry without an author, hence with the editor at the head of citations.} } @Misc{spock:interview, author = {Spock, Benjamin}, entrysubtype = {letter}, title = {interview by Milton J. E. Senn}, date = {1974-11-20}, note = {interview 67A, transcript}, organization = {Senn Oral History Collection}, institution = {National Library of Medicine}, location = {Bethesda, MD}, shorttitle = {interview}, annote = {An unpublished interview from an archive, hence requiring the Misc entry type with an entrysubtype. The interview is dated, but is not letter-like, so you put the date in the date field. The interviewee is the author, and the title, with its initial lowercase letter, names the interviewer. This Misc entry has all 4 locating fields in increasing generality: note, organization, institution, and location. The first of these also starts with a lowercase letter, as does the shorttitle.} } @Article{stenger:privacy, journaltitle = {CNN.com}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {1999-12-20}, author = {Stenger, Richard}, title = {Tiny Human-Borne Monitoring Device Sparks Privacy Fears}, url = {http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH/ptech/12/20/implant.device/}, shorttitle = {Tiny Human-Borne Monitoring Device}, annote = {This is an intrinsically-online source, but is structured like a newspaper, so we use the Article entry type and "magazine" entrysubtype. The Manual is specific about this, and it limits the range of things you might put into an Online entry.} } @Book{tillich:system, title = {Systematic Theology}, date = {1951/63}, author = {Tillich, Paul}, publisher = uchp, volumes = 3, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A Book entry with 3 volumes published over time. Any postnote fields in citation commands should provide volume and page, like so: "2:157".} } @InReference{times:guide, title = {The Times Guide to English Style and Usage}, edition = {\bibstring{revisededition}}, lista = {police ranks and postal addresses}, keywords = {original}, namec = {Austin, Tim}, year = 1999, publisher = {Times Books}, location = {London}, annote = {An InReference entry, citing (lista) two different alphabetized articles in a standard style guide, the names of the two separated by "and." The keywords field prevents the entry appearing in the bibliography, though do note that here quite a bit more information is presented than in the ency:britannica entry above. The edition field contains a bibstring, or you could simply start it with a lowercase letter and give the abbreviation (rev. ed. in English) yourself. The subsequent short note uses a plain postnote field to refer to one of the articles.} } @Audio{twain:audio, title = {The Humor of Mark Twain}, author = {Twain, Mark}, series = {Commuters' Library}, publisher = {Entertainment Software}, type = {6 cassettes}, address = {Arlington, TX}, annote = {An Audio entry presenting an audiobook, which means the publishing information will be presented as it would be in the standard book-like entries. The Manual sometimes presents this sort of material somewhat differently, requiring a Music entry -- cf. auden:reading. Here, the type field gives the medium.} } @Review{unsigned:ranke, journaltitle = {Ergänzungsblätter zur Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, sortkey = {Unsigned review}, date = {1828-02}, author = {\isdot}, title = {unsigned \bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{Geschichten der romanischen und germanischen Völker}, \bibstring{by} Leopold von Ranke}, number = {23--24}, shorttitle = {unsigned \bibstring{reviewof} von Ranke}, annote = {A rather unusual Review entry (entrysubtype "magazine"), without an author. The \isdot macro keeps the journaltitle from appearing first, but sortkey has to be used so that the bibliography entry isn't alphabetized under \isdot. Note the lowercase letters beginning both title and shorttitle. The \isdot macro in the author field also means that short notes will begin with the title. The number field refers to the consecutive numbers of the magazine in which the review appeared, and the style automatically provides the correct (plural) bibstring.} } @Audio{verdi:corsaro, title = {Il corsaro (melodramma tragico \mkbibemph{in three acts})}, titleaddon = {libretto by Francesco Maria Piave}, date = 1998, author = {Verdi, Giuseppe}, shorttitle = {Il corsaro}, editor = {Hudson, Elizabeth}, number = {\bibstring{jourser} 1, Operas}, series = {The Works of Giuseppe Verdi}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press; Milan: G.\ Ricordi}, volumes = 2, address = {Chicago}, annote = {An Audio entry presenting a published operatic score. Note the "reverse italics" in the title, and also the titleaddon, which identifies the librettist. Note also the two publishers, and two places of publication.} } @Book{virginia:plantation, title = {A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the Plantation Begun in Virginia, of the Degrees Which It Hath Received, and Means by Which It Hath Been Advanced}, shorttitle = {True and Sincere Declaration}, year = 1610, sortkey = {True and Sincere}, annote = {A Book entry showing how few fields are really necessary for a complete entry. You need the sortkey because of the indefinite article at the start of the title, as it seems preferable to alphabetize it under True rather than A.} } @Review{wallraff:word, journaltitle = {Atlantic Monthly}, entrysubtype = {magazine}, date = {2000-04}, author = {Wallraff, Barbara}, title = {Word Court}, shorttitle = {Word Court, April 2000}, annote = {A regular column in a magazine, without an individual title, hence the use of the Review entry type, entrysubtype "magazine." The shorttitle is rather complete here, just in case you refer to another "Word Court" column from another date. An alternative would be to use \printdate in the postnote field of a citation.} } @Article{warr:ellison, author = {Warr, Mark and Ellison, Christopher~G.}, title = {Rethinking Social Reactions to Crime}, subtitle = {Personal and Altruistic Fear in Family Households}, journaltitle = {American Journal of Sociology}, date = {2000-11}, volume = 106, number = 3, pages = {551--78}, url = {http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/issues/v106n3/050125/050125.html}, annote = {An Article with an online version.} } @Book{wauchope:ceramics, title = {A Tentative Sequence of Pre-Classic Ceramics in Middle America}, year = 1950, author = {Wauchope, Robert}, publisher = {Tulane University}, series = {Middle American Research Records}, number = {\bibstring{volume} 1, \bibstring{number} 14}, location = {New Orleans, LA}, shorttitle = {Tentative Sequence of Pre-Classic Ceramics}, annote = {A Book with a series and number. The name of the series alone goes in series, the rest in number.} } @Audio{weed:flatiron, title = {At the Foot of the Flatiron}, date = 1903, addendum = {from \fullcite{loc:city}}, author = {Weed, A.~E.}, publisher = {American Mutoscope {and} Biograph Company}, type = {35~mm; 2 min., 19 sec.}, annote = {The Manual, for some reason, has chosen a rather more book-like presentation for this film, so instead of a Video entry I have here used Audio. To be more consistent, I would have chosen Video for this, but in any case note the creator of the film in the author field, and the medium w/ running length in the type field. The addendum cites another (Video) entry, containing information about the online location of the MPEG version of the original 35mm film. These two entries will be presented together in both notes and bibliography, as suggested by the Manual, 17.270.} } @Book{weresz, author = {Wereszycki, Henryk}, title = {Koniec sojuszu trzech cesarzy}, usere = {The end of the Three Emperors' League}, publisher = {PWN}, year = 1977, location = {Warsaw}, shorttitle = {The End of the Three Emperors' League}, annote = {A Book in Polish, with the title given in Polish (though lacking diacritics) and with a translation provided for us. The translation, in the usere field, is capitalized sentence style.} } @Article{white:callimachus, author = {White, Stephen~A.}, title = {Callimachus Battiades (\mkbibemph{Epigr.} 35)}, journaltitle = {Classical Philology}, volume = 94, date = {1999-04}, pages = {168--81}, annote = {A standard Article entry with a formatted title quoted in the title field.} } @Letter{white:ross:memo, author = {White, E.~B.}, title = {EBW to Harold Ross}, titleaddon = {memorandum}, keywords = {original}, xref = {white:total}, pages = 273, origdate = {1946-05-02}, shorthand = {EBWMemo}, shorttitle = {to Ross}, annote = {This and the next two entries demonstrate how to use cross-references in Letter entries. When more than one letter is cited, the published collection of letters alone will be printed in the bibliography, so we use the keywords field to stop this entry from appearing there. Since Chicago's mechanism for shortened cross-references is operative in Letter entries using crossref or xref (as in InCollection and InProceedings entries), the first long citation to any letter in the collection will present the parent's full data, whereas subsequent long citations will abbreviate it. Note the usual Letter form of the title and shorttitle, the letter's date in origdate, and the descriptive term "memorandum" in the titleaddon, with its initial lowercase letter. I've also provided a shorthand field just to give a glimpse of how it looks.} } @Letter{white:russ, author = {White, E.~B.}, title = {EBW to B.~Russell}, keywords = {original}, xref = {white:total}, pages = 283, origdate = {1947-07-02}, shorttitle = {to Russell}, annote = {This is a spurious entry I've just made up to show the cross-referencing mechanism at work in Letter entries. The long note form of this comes after that citing white:ross:memo, so it will be abbreviated by comparison. The usual Letter title, shorttitle, and origdate are present, and the keywords field will keep it from being printed in the bibliography.} } @Book{white:total, title = {Letters of E.~B. White}, year = 1976, author = {White, E.~B.}, shortauthor = {\isdot}, editor = {Guth, Dorothy Lobrano}, publisher = {Harper \&\ Row}, location = {New York}, annote = {The parent entry of the two preceding child entries. Note that it is a Book entry, and will appear in the bibliography if more than one child references it, even though it isn't cited itself. The \isdot macro in shortauthor avoids repetition of the name that is already in the title field, both in short notes and also in the shortened form of the cross-reference in the second child's long note.} } @InReference{wikiped:bibtex, title = {Wikipedia}, lista = {BibTeX}, keywords = {original}, url = {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX}, urldate = {2008-06-24}, annote = {An online InReference entry. You must have the urldate field, as such sources change rather rapidly. It will not be printed in the bibliography.} } @InBook{will:cohere, author = {Williams, Joseph~M. and Colomb, Gregory~C.}, title = {Coherence II\@}, booktitle = {Style}, booksubtitle = {Toward Clarity and Grace}, bookauthor = {Williams, Joseph~M.}, pages = {81--95}, publisher = uchp, year = 1990, location = {Chicago}, annote = {A chapter in a book that has a different authorship from the book as a whole. In such a case, you can use an InBook entry, with the author(s) of the chapter in the author field, and the author(s) of the whole book in the bookauthor field.} } @Collection{zukowsky:chicago, title = {Chicago Architecture, 1872--1922}, subtitle = {Birth of a Metropolis}, year = 1987, editor = {Zukowsky, John}, publisher = {Prestel-Verlag in association with the Art Institute of Chicago}, location = {Munich}, annote = {A standard Collection entry, with an editor instead of an author. Note extra information in publisher field.} }