Citing and referencing habits in medicine and social sciences journals in 2019

Journal of Documentation - Tập 77 Số 6 - Trang 1321-1342 - 2021
Erika Alves dos Santos1, Silvio Peroni2, Marcos Luiz Mucheroni3
1Serviço de Biblioteca e Documentação-Biblioteca Dr. Eduardo Gabriel Saad, Fundação Jorge Duprat Figueiredo de Segurança e Medicina do Trabalho - Fundacentro, São Paulo, Brazil
2Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
3Department of Information and Culture (CBD), School of Communication and Arts (ECA), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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PurposeThis article explores citing and referencing systems in social sciences and medicine articles from different theoretical and practical perspectives, considering bibliographic references as a facet of descriptive representation.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis of citing and referencing elements (i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations and respective in-text reference pointers) identified citing and referencing habits within disciplines under consideration and errors occurring over the long term as stated by previous studies now expanded. Future expected trends of information retrieval from bibliographic metadata was gathered by approaching these referencing elements from the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) entities concepts.FindingsReference styles do not fully accomplish with their role of guiding authors and publishers on providing concise and well-structured bibliographic metadata within bibliographic references. Trends on representative description revision suggest a predicted distancing on the ways information is approached by bibliographic references and bibliographic catalogs adopting FRBR concepts, including the description levels adopted by each of them under the perspective of the FRBR entities concept.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was based on a subset of medicine and social sciences articles published in 2019 and, therefore, it may not be taken as a final and broad coverage. Future studies expanding these approaches to other disciplines and chronological periods are encouraged.Originality/valueBy approaching citing and referencing issues as descriptive representation's facets, findings on this study may encourage further studies that will support information science and computer science on providing tools to become bibliographic metadata description simpler, better structured and more efficient facing the revision of descriptive representation actually in progress.

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Journal of Documentation

Tập 77 Số 6

1321-1342

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