Bibliographic data

Formats specific to the storage and transmission of bibliographic data, finding aids and reference lists.

Bibliography formats

 * BIBFRAME (framework under development for bibliographic classes and properties)
 * BibJSON format for bibliographic data transmission
 * BibTeX (.bib)
 * Citation File Format (CFF)
 * Dublin Core (.dcx)
 * EAD (Encoded Archival Data, for archival finding aids)
 * EndNote Library (.enl)
 * ISO 2709 (format used in MARC)
 * MADS Metadata Authority files in XML (MARC21)
 * MODS
 * MPEG21-DIDL
 * ONIX XML-based bibliographic format used by publishers
 * OPAC format used over Z39.50; appends library holdings information to a Marc record
 * ProCite
 * RefMan (.ris) (Bibliographic plain text format - can be used to import/export citations to proprietary EndNote/ReferenceManager or non-proprietary Zotero)
 * SUTRS Simple Unstructured Text Representation, a loosely defined format for transmission of bibliographic data over Z39.50

Library cataloguing

 * Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)
 * MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging)
 * MARCXML
 * Resource Description and Access (RDA)

Metaformats

 * Citation Style Language

Tools and applications

 * Zotero (research and legal citation tool)

Links

 * Academic citation practices need to be modernized so that all references are digital and lead to full texts.
 * Catalog and Context