CITING – STANDARD AND STYLE

Milena Tsvetkova

Цветкова, Милена Иванова, 1970-

Цитирането : стандарт и стил / Милена Цветкова ; [науч. ред. Веселина Вълканова]. -

София : Библиоскоп, 2013 (София : БПС). - 305 с. : с табл., сх. ; 21 см. - (Sapienti sat)

Загл. на англ. ез.: Citing standard and style. - Науч. ред. отбелязана в библиогр. каре ; Авт.

на предг. отбелязана на с. 8. - Homo Citans / Андреана Ефтимова: с. 7-8. - Библиогр.: с.

297-301. - Рез. на англ. ез.

ISBN 978-954-8586-19-1

001.81

028.6/.7

002.19

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Summary

The study outlines systematically the rules for citations in research papers in different

scientific fields. The purpose of the author is to define and synthesize the citing process as

standard, as style, and as referent methods. The book is based on the current international and

Bulgarian standards for writing and publishing of scientific works with proper use of references

and citations.

The main thematic fields in the study include: actuality of the problem “citation”; rules for

citation; literacy in citation; discipline and ethics in citation; functions, anomalies, and formats

of the citations as structural base of the interactive citing technology. Outlined are: the two

main types of systematic citation – Documentary-note style (references in foot- or endnotes)

and Parenthetical style (known as author-date/page or in-text referent system); the three

citing methods according to International Standard 690.2 – “Guidelines for bibliographic

references and citations to information resources”: Name and date system (Harvard style),

Numeric system, and Running notes; four university or scientific standard documentation

formats – the systems Name/date, Author/page, Notes-bibliography, and Numbered system

with the corresponding methods of citation and the spheres of their application (scientific or

humanitarian).

Next come the academic styles for bibliographic references and citations defined in three main

groups: nature and technical sciences; social sciences; and humanities. According to the official

style manuals/handbooks, there are seven academic citation styles and referencing rules for

research papers. Described are the main features and rules for citation (with examples) in the

five specialized university styles used in different scientific fields: MLA, APA, Turabian,

Chicago, and CBE/CSE, as well the two prevalent and accepted and used world-wide academic

citing systems – Harvard and Vancouver, with their different formats, style variations, and

special cases.

The book is well equipped with different practical appendixes: test of the attitude toward

citation as Appendix 1; formatting the bibliographic descriptions to information resources in

MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, CBE/CSE, Harvard and Vancouver styles, according to the

international standards 690.2 and ISO 690:2010, and the Bulgarian standards BDS ISO 690:2011

and BDS 17377-96 as Appendix 2 (in comparative tables and with description of resources of

different types); list of latin abbreviations as Appendix 3; and a selection of recourses for the

different styles and different scientific fields as Appendix 4.

In conclusion, there is a fine line between the ethics and the incorrectness, between the rules

and the speculations. No author has the right to cross that line.