Traditional commonly used manual systems for compiling indexes
of documents make use of cards, such as library catalogue cards,
but nowadays a good computerised Personal Reference System is to
be preferred.
For each document acquired, the bibliographic identification
elements are written, or typed, on a card. Thus, for a journal
article, the structure is: author's surname and forenames;
article title; periodical title; volume number; part number; date
of publication; pages. Keywords or descriptors of the contents
should be written up. Alternatively, a short abstract or summary
can be included (you can often make use of abstracts written by
the author). The use of a standardised reference format style is
recommended.
The following is an example:
AUTHOR(S)* Sullivan, John
TITLE* Economic analysis of a proposed industrial robot
SOURCE* Mechanical Engineering. Vol.45 (1993) 6, pp.118-126.
KEYWORDS Robotics, Control systems, Forging, Optimisation,
Hydraulic drive, Computer simulation
ABSTRACT The article presents a simple program, written in C+,
that is capable of quickly answering
questions that arise during economic justifications of robots.
This is carried out by means of
an after-tax worth assessment of cash flow differences between
the manual operation and the
robot application.
DOC.TYPE Journal Article
LANGUAGE English
PUBL.YEAR 1993
COMMENTS Useful review (156 refs.)
*Essential data elements in any indexing system
For a book the structure would be: author's surname and given
names, title, and subtitle, place of publication, name of
publisher, year of publication.