TYPE OF LISTINGS
Type of listings
One of the major challenges in compiling these works is the question of citation format consistency. Researchers in each country have their own unique bibliographic formats and systems of abbreviations.
Each citation is typed into a computerized database and then reproduced into the DdA reference style which requires fuller information than that used in many countries.
Retyped lists are subsequently returned to the authors for editing and for adding missing information. Due to inconsistent postal and telephone-fax service and as well as inconsistent internet service in several world areas some lists are not adequately checked. As a result, not all entries are complete nor thoroughly checked for accuracy. An editor's note identifies these listings.
The citations include only written and media materials that are "publicly presented."
The three types of listings are: 1) articles in journals, magazines, proceedings or encyclopedias; 2) books, monographs, theses, dissertations, handbooks, video, films, CD-ROMs, and web-site listings; 3) publicly presented research papers. Each type is easily identified by the punctuation.
• Each citation is given a bold-faced "record number" which identifies the citation in the two indexes. The citations are listed alphabetically by author and each author by a temporal order; within the same year, the order is sorted first by non-published, but publicly presented works, then whole works (books, monographs), followed by articles or chapters.
• Non-English titles are translated into English. Non-Roman alphabets are followed by a Romanized transliteration (when available and verifiable).
• If the title is not for a standard book or journal, then the medium is given in parentheses (such as doctoral dissertation, motion picture film, videocassette, or other). If the title is not for a standard article in a journal, or a chapter in a book, then the medium is also given in parentheses (such as a book review, report of a conference, performance review, and so on).
• Abbreviations are not used.
• Additional information is placed at the end of the citation in parentheses—page numbers, inclusion of graphics, notation or photos.
• Place of publication states the city, followed by state and/or country if the city is not a national capital. The spelling of the city and country is relative to the language at the place of publication for that title. For example, if the publication is in the German language, not published in a capital, then the city and country are given, such as: Innsbruck, Austria. Major well-known metropolises with over a million population and which are not capitals (such as New York or Los Angeles) are listed without state or country.
Overall there is an attempt to maintain the citation in its own language. The addition of English is in: a) the translation of the author's title (within brackets [ ] ), b) note information at the end of the citation (within parentheses), c) index geographical terms, d) index subject keywords.
1) Articles
The title of an article is enclosed in quotation marks (" "). The title of the whole work is (italicized). The location of the article in the whole work is shown by the page numbers which are placed after the colon (:) which follows the italicized title.
Example:
Kaeppler, Adrienne
1972 "Method and theory in analyzing dance structure with an analysis of Tongan dance." Ethnomusicology 16(2):173-217. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Society for Ethnomusicology.
2) Whole works
A title of a whole work is italicized. The number of pages of the whole work is placed at the end of the citation.
Example:
Dabrowska, Grazyna; Kurt Petermann (editors)
1983 Analyse und Klassifikation von Volkstänzen [Analysis and classification of folk dances]. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Science, Art Institute of Warsaw. (Conference report of the tenth working meeting of the International Folk Music Council Study Group for Folkdance Terminology, held in Zaborów, near Warsaw, Poland.) (226 pages; Labanotation; music notation.)
3) Publicly presented, but not formally published
This title has no special punctuation, but following the title is a brief parenthetical designation of the type of non-published work, such as (research paper). Following this title, and also in parentheses, there is information on where and for whom the material was presented.
Example:
Giurchescu, Anca
1995 Musician-dancer and music-dance interaction in improvised performances (research paper). (Presented to the international seminar organised by the European Mozart Academy, Budapest; December.)
