UŘLS TEI Cookbook

# Bibliography

To include bibliographic citations in the document a listBibl can be used. It should be located inside the sourceDesc element inside the teiHeader.

Important

All bibliographic citations should follow Chicago Manual of Style. For more details, see Chicago manual of style (opens new window).

<listBibl>
  <head>Select bibliography</head>
  <bibl xml:id="Bib_RE_TAC" n="1">Richard Ellmann (ed), The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Chicago 1982).</bibl>
  <!-- or -->
  <biblStruct>
    <analytic>
      <author>Oscar Wilde</author>
      <title level="a">The Importance of Being Earnest</title>
    </analytic>
    <monogr>
      <title level="m">Plays, Prose Writings and Poems</title>
      <imprint>
        <pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
        <publisher>Everyman</publisher>
        <date>1930</date>
        <biblScope type="pages">450-509</biblScope>
      </imprint>
    </monogr>
  </biblStruct>
</listBibl>
See the full source description 
<sourceDesc>
  <listWit>
    <witness xml:id="A17"></witness>
  </listWit>
  <listPerson>
    <person xml:id="C4"></person>
  </listPerson>
  <listPlace>
    <place xml:id="rome"></place>
  </listPlace>
  <listOrg>
    <org xml:id="catholic-church"></org>
  </listOrg>
  <listBibl>
    <bibl xml:id="Bib_RE_TAC" n="1"></bibl>
  </listBibl>
</sourceDesc>

# Simple citation

<bibl xml:id="Bibl_RE_TAC" n="1" type="book">Richard Ellmann (ed), The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Chicago 1982).</bibl>

The bibl element should be used if simple textual descriptions of bibliography are enough. The xml:id attribute should contain a unique ID. It is recommended to prefix the id with Bibl_ prefix to avoid potential collision of IDs in the document. The attribute n can be used to number the record inside the list and it is not necessary unique within the document.

# Structured bibliographic citation

<biblStruct xml:id="Bibl_OW_IBE" n="1" type="book">
  <analytic>
    <author>Oscar Wilde</author>
    <title level="a">The Importance of Being Earnest</title>
  </analytic>
  <monogr>
    <title level="m">Plays, Prose Writings and Poems</title>
    <imprint>
      <pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
      <publisher>Everyman</publisher>
      <date>1930</date>
      <biblScope unit="page">450-509</biblScope>
    </imprint>
  </monogr>
</biblStruct>

The biblStruct element should be used for structured descriptions of bibliographic information. Likewise the bibl element it should be used xml:id to provide a unique identificator of the record and n attribute to number the record inside the list.

Both bibl and biblStruct element should have set type attribute specifying the type of the bibliographic record. See table below for available types: monography, article, thesis, dissertation, journal, edition.

TIP

The ID of the bibl and biblStruct elements should have different prefixes for different lists.

# Analytic level of description

<analytic>
  <author>Oscar Wilde</author>
  <title level="a">The Importance of Being Earnest</title>
</analytic>

This section should contain bibliographic elements describing an item (e.g. an article or poem) published within a monograph or journal and not as an independent publication. The analytic level should be usually followed by monographic level.

# Monographic level

<monogr>
  <title level="m">Plays, Prose Writings and Poems</title>
  <imprint>
    <pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
    <publisher>Everyman</publisher>
    <date>1930</date>
    <biblScope unit="page">450-509</biblScope>
  </imprint>
</monogr>

These element should describe an item (e.g. a book or journal) published as an independent item (i.e. as a separate physical object). Monographic level may also contain author tag if the bibliographic record is monography.

# Author

<author>Oscar Wilde</author>

Contains the name(s) of an author, personal or corporate, of a work; for example in the same form as that provided by a recognized bibliographic name authority. The element can be repeated as many times as needed.

TIP

The author element can contain element persName and be linked to a predefined person in the sourceDesc.

# Title

<title xml:lang="eng" level="m" type="main">Plays, Prose Writings and Poems</title>

The title element is mandatory and must be present in both analytic and monogr. It should contain the title of the bibligoraphic record and different level should be noted in the level attribute. The attribute type should further specify the type of the title. For example, books usually have main title and subtitle. It is also recommended to keep information about the language of the title.

Level Description
a (analytic) the title applies to an analytic item, such as an article, poem, or other work published as part of a larger item.
m (monographic) the title applies to a monograph such as a book or other item considered to be a distinct publication, including single volumes of multi-volume works
j (journal) the title applies to any serial or periodical publication such as a journal, magazine, or newspaper
s (series) the title applies to a series of otherwise distinct publications such as a collection
u (unpublished) the title applies to any unpublished material (including theses and dissertations unless published by a commercial press)
Type Description
main main title
sub (subordinate) subtitle, title of part
alt (alternate) alternate title, often in another language, by which the work is also known
short abbreviated form of title
desc (descriptive) descriptive paraphrase of the work functioning as a title

More than one title element

There can be more than one title element if the type attribute is different.

<title xml:lang="eng" level="m" type="main">Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages</title>
<title xml:lang="eng" level="m" type="sub">The Reception and Use of Patristic Ideas, 400–900</title>

# Imprint

<imprint>
  <pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
  <publisher>Everyman</publisher>
  <date when="1930">1930</date>
  <biblScope unit="page">450-509</biblScope>
</imprint>

Groups information relating to the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.

# Publication place

<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>

Contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.

# Publisher

<publisher>Everyman</publisher>

The publisher element provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.

# Date

<date when="1930">1930</date>

The date element contains date in any format, see date for further description.

# Scope of bibliographic reference

<biblScope unit="page">450-509</biblScope>

The element defines the scope of a bibliographic reference, for example as a list of page numbers, or a named subdivision of a larger work. The attribute unit describes additional sub-type of the bibliographical reference.

Units Description
volume the element contains a volume number.
issue the element contains an issue number, or volume and issue numbers.
page the element contains a page number or page range.
line the element contains a line number or line range.
chapter the element contains a chapter indication (number and/or title)
part the element identifies a part of a book or collection.
column the element identifies a column.
entry the element identifies an entry number or label in a list of entries.

# Different bibliographic lists


 



<listBibl>
  <head>Select bibliography</head>
  <!-- List of bibliographic items -->
</listBibl>

The listBibl element can be repeated as many times as needed. Thus it can be used to create different kind of lists, for example one list can contain only Select bibliography and the other The editions used in the digital editions. Each of these list can contain different degree of detail, one can use simple bibl elements and the other biblStruct. It is strongly advised to use header element to name these lists for easier orientation, see highlighted row in example.

TIP

It might be useful to use different ID prefixes for different lists.

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