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Topic 5 "GOST standards for the bibliographic description of various

types of documents"

1. A bibliographic description is bibliographic information about a source or

its component part, given according to certain rules and necessary for the
identification of a document.
Bibliographic descriptions are compiled in accordance with GOST R 7.0.100-
2018 "Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description". Date of introduction:
01.07.2019. Developed on the basis of the «International Standard Bibliographic
Description».

2. The objects of compiling a bibliographic description are all types of

published and unpublished resources on any physical media and/or in information
and telecommunication networks: books, sheet music, cartographic, audiovisual,
visual, serial publications, regulatory and technical documents, integrated resources,
electronic resources, microforms and other resources, as well as component parts of
resources, groups of homogeneous and heterogeneous resources.

3. Types of bibliographic description.

Depending on the completeness of the set of elements, the bibliographic
description is divided into three types: complete, extended and short.
Full bibliographic description (contains mandatory, conditionally mandatory
and optional elements);
Еxtended bibliographic description (contains mandatory and conditionally
mandatory elements);
Short bibliographic description (contains only the required elements).
The full description includes all mandatory and optional elements, that is, it
contains the maximum set of elements. Optional elements are given with the greatest
completeness in descriptions for state bibliographic indexes of library catalogs and
databases of large universal scientific libraries (RSL, RNB) and centers of state
bibliography (RCP).
The extended description contains, in addition to the mandatory, some optional
elements. This type of description is most widely used in organizations of the
documentary communication system.
The short description consists only of mandatory elements, is used quite rarely
and, as a rule, for work purposes.
Depending on the structure, there are single-level and multi-level
bibliographic descriptions.
A single-level description contains one level. It is made up for a single-part
document, for a completed multi-part document as a whole, for a separate physical
unit, as well as a group of physical units of a multi-part document.

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Example:
Mullins, J.K. The impact of anatomical radical retropubic prostatectomy on cancer control: the 30-
year anniversary / J.K. Mullins [et al.] // Journal of Urology. – 2012. – Vol. 188 (4). – P. 2219-
2224.

A multi-level description contains two or more levels. It is divided into one or

more volumes (issues, numbers, parts) of a multi-volume, complete document, serial
or other ongoing resource.

4. The structure of the bibliographic description.

The elements of the bibliographic description, in accordance with GOST, are
divided into mandatory and optional. Optional items are shown in italics in the
List. The description may contain only mandatory elements, or mandatory and
optional.
Mandatory elements contain bibliographic information that ensures the
identification of the document. They are necessarily given in the description. Let's
highlight the mandatory elements from the List:
The bibliographic description should contain the following information,
separated from each other by certain dividing signs:
1) Surname, Full name of the author(s)
2) The title
3) / Full name of the compiler(s); responsible editor
4) // The name of the whole document (collection, magazine, newspaper, etc.),
which contains the component part (article, section, etc.)
5). Place of publication of the book (Accepted abbreviations: Moscow - M., St.
Petersburg - St. Petersburg or St. Petersburg, London - L., New York – N.Y.)
6) : Name of the publishing house that published the book
7) , The year of publication of the book
8) . The total number of pages for an entire book or the number of pages that a
part of the book occupies
9) . Year of publication of the periodical
10) . The number of the periodical
11) . The page numbers on which the article is placed.
Optional elements contain bibliographic information that provides additional
information about the document. Their presence in the description is not necessary.

5. General rules of abbreviations in the bibliographic description

When making a list of references in the bibliographic description of the resource,
the national standard GOST R 7.0.100-2018 "Bibliographic record. Bibliographic
description. General requirements and rules of compilation" permits the use of both
full and abbreviated forms of words and phrases. Abbreviations of words and
phrases are used in accordance with current standards: GOST R 7.0.12-2011
"Bibliographic record. Abbreviations of words and phrases in Russian"; GOST 7.11-
2004 "Bibliographic record. Abbreviations of words and phrases in foreign
European languages".
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 Words and phrases are never abbreviated:
- in the title in all areas of description (name) (except when the abbreviation is
available in the prescribed source of information);
- in the names of places of publications (cities);
- in words denoting the thematic name of the publisher (publisher).

6. General provisions of the analytical description

In addition to books, the literature lists always include articles from magazines,
collections, chapters from books, and works from collected works. The description
of such materials, which are an integral part of the publication, is called analytical.
The constituent parts include:
- an independent work;
- a part of the work with an independent title;
- a part of the work that does not have an independent title, but is highlighted for
the purpose of bibliographic identification.
The analytical description assumes two parts in its composition. The first one
includes information about the article (chapter, part, paragraph), the second one -
about the publication in which it was published. An analytical bibliographic
description is provided in the output language of the identifying document or the
official language of the country in which the document is published. Information
about the component part of a text document may be given in the language of the
text of the component part, in this case the languages of the bibliographic description
of the component part and the identifying document may not match.
The analytical description assumes two parts in its composition. The first one
includes information about the article (chapter, part, paragraph), The second is about
the publication in which it is published. The information about the publication is
preceded by two slashes.
The scheme of the analytical description
Information about the component part of the document (author, title, information
about responsibility) // Information about the identifying document (author, title,
information about responsibility). – Information about the location of the component
part in the document (place of publication, edition, no., year of publication, pages
on which the component part of the document is published).
The scheme of the analytical description of the article from the journal
The surname of the author of the article. Title of the article [Text] / information
about responsibility // Title of the journal. – year of publication. – No. – p. The pages
on which the article is placed.
The // sign is always with spaces before and after!!!
The description of the article (chapter, paragraph) is given in accordance with
the same rules as the description of the book: the surname and initials of the author,
the main title. If an article has more than three authors or a collective author, it is
described under the title, and in the information about responsibility, after one slash,
their initials and surnames or the name of the institution representing the author's
team are given. The titles of periodicals are not translated.

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 Instead of the total number of pages, the initial and final pages on which the
specified material is printed are indicated (abbreviated designations of pages, sheets,
columns in Russian and foreign European languages are written with a capital letter
and placed before a digit).

Examples:

Description of the chapter, paragraph from the book

Chomskaya, E.D. Neuropsychological diagnostics. Part II. – Moscow: EKSMO Press, 1993. – 46
p.

Description of the article from the magazine

Kasperzyk, J.L. Watchful waiting and quality of life among prostate cancer survivors in the
Physicians’ Health Study / J.L. Kasperzyk [et al.] // Journal of Urology. – 2011. – Vol. 186 (5). –
P. 1862-1867.