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bibliographic

bibliographic

1 6.5
About lists of books or articles used to show sources
  • adjective
  • /ˌbɪbliəˈɡræfɪk/
translation icon : bibliográfico
  • Librarians often compile bibliographic lists to help readers find relevant books and articles on a subject.
  • bibliographic records
  • bibliographic database
  • bibliographic reference

Examples

  • Students also need to learn about discipline-specific bibliographic databases, such as Medline and PsycINFO.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Contrary to what many people tend to believe today, extensive bibliographic sources were not born with computers.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The expected result should be a solid foundation of bibliographic information about newspapers on which to build.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Section 4 presents research challenges and opportunities in bibliographic classification research.

    Academic text (2017)
  • If these standards come into common usage, libraries must strongly consider including them in bibliographic and authority records.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In this research article, we have investigated and reported different approaches to bibliographic classification of digital collections.

    Academic text (2017)
  • There are two main challenges for the application of the bibliographic classification principles in classifying the Web.

    Academic text (2017)
  • For addressing these challenges, there is a need to apply and modify bibliographic classification principles in digital environments.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Therefore, a true native perspective is needed to be adopted for bibliographic classification in digital environments.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Semantic Web and LOD technologies have also been used in dealing with bibliographic data.

    Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

bibliographical
vsbibliographic
1 7.2

About making lists and descriptions of books and written sources

relates more broadly to listing, cataloging, and referencing publications
bibliog
vsbibliographic
  • Informal
9.1

Relating to the list of sources at the end of a paper

is the formal adjective used for listing, cataloging, and referencing publications
citational
vsbibliographic
  • Specialized
8.3

About giving credit to other writers or sources in writing

focuses more on listing, cataloging, and describing entire publications

Surface Forms

bibliographic positive

Morphology

bibliographic = bibliography (transparent) = biblio + graph + ic

The adjective is formed regularly from 'bibliography' with the common adjectival suffix '-ic', so the relation is direct and predictable.

Etymology

Bibliographic comes from Greek parts biblio- meaning 'book' and -graphic meaning 'writing'. So, bibliographic describes the writing, listing, or recording of information about books and other publications.