Bibliographic Codes
The bibliographic codes are generated from the journal, volume and
page information for each publication. The form of the bibliographic
code is:
yyyyjjjjjvvvvmppppa
where:
- yyyy: Year of publication
- jjjjj: A standard abbreviation for the journal. A list of
abbreviations is available.
- vvvv: The volume number (for a journal) or an abbreviation that
specifies what type of publication it is (e.g. conf for conference
proceedings, meet for Meeting proceedings, book for a book, cong for
congress proceedings).
- m: Qualifier for publication:
- L: Letter
- P: Pink page
- Q-Z: Unduplicating character for identical codes
- pppp: Page number.
- a: The first letter of the last name of the first author.
The bibliographic codes are selected so that they match the codes used
by the SIMBAD project.