What is Bibliography: Definition and 36 Discussions

Bibliography (from Ancient Greek: βιβλίον, romanized: biblion, lit. 'book' and -γραφία, -graphía, 'writing'), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from Ancient Greek: -λογία, romanized: -logía). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses, one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (enumerative bibliography); the other, one applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (descriptive bibliography).

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  1. Bertin

    Studying Comparing Candidate Theories of Quantum Gravity

    Hi, you all, I have been for a couple of semesters interested in quantum gravity as a problem, but truth is I never have been properly introduced to any of the candidate theories. Actually, there are multiple candidates and I would like to compare them. The question then is the following: do...
  2. Bertin

    Applied Bibliography on integration and ODE/PDE solving techniques for physics

    Hi, you all, I open this thread to ask for any recommendation concerning integration as well as ODE/PDE solving techniques for physics. I love mathematics, and I usually read material on pure mathematics (most notably abstract algebra and a bit of topology) but here I'm more interested in the...
  3. CanoJones

    I Kerr Metric Bibliography: Resources for Timelike Geodesics

    Hi all: As stated in the summary I'm in need for bibliography about timelike geodesics in the Kerr metric. I have tried using the "Mathematical Theory of Black Holes" by S. Chandrasekhar but I find it a bit to complex. Is there any other good books or articles about this that you might know...
  4. M

    LaTeX Which bibliography style does the Journal of Engineering Math use?

    Hi PF! Do you know which bibliography style Journal of Engineering Math is? One example is attached. The template they provide for publishing does not specify, and the editor said to consult previous publications. After googling for an hour, I don't know where to turn. I could always email an...
  5. John Greger

    How to change Bibliography settings to enable links

    I can get the citation code from Inspire.net for papers. However, can I change the Bibliography settings in some way such that there are hyperlinks to the paper? I don't want to embed it manually for every reference. For instance. Now, I use the citation code @article{Hawking:2000kj...
  6. CanoJones

    Nuclear weapons physics (I need a Bibliography)

    Summary:: I need some bibliography about the phyics of nuclear weapons (manhattan project-like) for an essay. I've been googling and tried to find some bibliography for the topic, but have found very little (most of the stuff I found was abut the history rather than the proper nuclear...
  7. S

    Other Textbooks needed to cover everything in university (undergrad to PhD)

    First of all we are talking about theoretical physics (particle physics, general relativity and cosmology) These textbooks start from high school level physics and math and cover everything from there (both math and physics wise).
  8. arivero

    Sci-hub downloads vs citations

    Only for papers in INSPIRE-HEP. Vertical axis are citations. Downloads measured during the six-month period from september 2015 to Feb 2016 (afaik no more recent data is available, is it?) excluding duplicate IPs of the same paper. stats "corr.txt" using 1:2 Linear Model: y = 1.782 x + 674.3...
  9. nomadreid

    Style for references and bibliography

    I have found that the bibliographies in my professional peer-reivewed print journals all follow the guidelines for the order as given in the standard style guides (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc.) : that is, in the alphabetical order of the surnames. However, in arXiv articles (which are not...
  10. A

    LaTeX How do you maintain Bibliography file for BibTex?

    Hi guys, I have several projects on my three computers which use bibliography. I maintain them manually, copying and pasting whatever is needed. Needless to say, this is becoming stupid now. I recently started using Zotero. It seems like a nice idea, I use the zotero plugin to save whatever I...
  11. F

    Bibliography about remote sensing

    Greetings everybody. I have been tasked with doing an small (12 pages) study about measuring the thermal signatureof a city and the surrounding landscape with a satellite. I'm afraid I haven't touched the subject very deeply, and I would thank anybody who would point me to some books which...
  12. C

    LaTeX Bibliography in Latex, already part done manually

    Problem: After more than half of my thesis I was advised to use Latex. At this moment I'm learning it, so far looks doable. However, there is a problem of bibliography... yes, mostly manually formatted as it is supposed to look like in output file... I'd like to use Bibtex... but wouldn't it...
  13. binbagsss

    How to change heading size Bibliography

    The title is coming up bigger than the rest of the text I want it smaller Is there a fast way to change it? (just the heading)Thanks a lot ! (assignment deadline tommorrow- your help is really really apppreciated :) ).
  14. P

    Prob/Stats What Book Best Explains the Distribution of Combined Random Variables?

    Hello everyone. Recently I've been working in a project involving some statistics, and I've found that I lack knowledge about this. So I'm looking for a book about probability and statistics, but I'm specially interested in how one can get the distribution of a combination of others...
  15. J

    Find Physicists' Published Papers: Max Planck, Ludwig Boltzmann

    Does anyone have any suggestions for finding lists of all papers published by individual physicists? Usually the Google machine turns up hits pretty quickly, but I've hit a brick wall looking for lists for Max Planck and Ludwig Boltzmann. netlib.org/bibnet/ is amazing, but it's pretty narrow.
  16. L

    How to do Chicago style citation and bibliography

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  17. T

    Bibliography to understand Fermi, Bose and Boltzmann statistics?

    I'm studying by Statistical Mechanics (Huang, page 180) but can't understand many things there, can anyone provide a good bibliography to study this? I don't understand what's an occupation number of a given momentum: if it's the number of particles with that given momentum, why can it only be 0...
  18. micromass

    Physicsforums Bibliography: Discussion thread

    This is the discussion thread for the Physicsforums bibliography. In this thread, you can suggest new books to be added to the bibliography and you can make comments about existing books. These posts will be transferred to the actual bibliography thread by a mentor. When suggesting a new book...
  19. micromass

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    Welcome to the Physicsforums bibliography thread. The purpose of this thread is to make a list of science books of various different topics. What follows is the list of science books sorted by their different categories. Clicking on the name of a book brings up all the relevant information...
  20. E

    How does one look up physics papers in a bibliography?

    This is perhaps a stupid question, but I'm an academic in a (non-physics) field where the references in a paper's bibliography are usually cited in a form like: H. T. Smith, F. R. Jones, B. T. Sun - "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions" , Journal of Important Studies, 54(2), 2012 If I...
  21. L

    Where can I find recommended books to learn about Quantum Physics?

    I'd like to have some ideas of books so that I get to know more about Quantum Physics. Not something too easy not something really complicated but something to know more about the subject. Thanks.
  22. C

    Wheeler's Delayed Choice bibliography

    Hi, I'm in desperate search of an article related to Interaction Free Measuremnt and Measurement Theory: John Archibald Wheeler, "The 'Past' and the 'Delayed-Choice Double-Slit Experiment'," pp 9–48, in A.R. Marlow, editor, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Theory, Academic Press (1978)...
  23. Saladsamurai

    LaTeX LaTeX: Troubleshooting Bibliography Citations and References

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  24. G

    Bibliography for Cosmography

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  25. M

    H-physrev5.bst bibliography style is used en physics

    Community, I do this question here, because this bibliography style is used en physics. It is at SPIRES and I hope that you know. I write a paper and I want to add the title at entries of articles. How do I do?
  26. V

    LaTeX One bibliography file for several latex documents

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  27. N

    Troubleshooting Bibliography Issues in PDF Output

    Hey all, My bibliography is not showing up in the PDF output, and I'm not sure why.. The bib file is in the same directory as the the main tex file. I am using the command: \documentclass[a4paper,twoside,11pt]{book} \usepackage{calc} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{graphicx}...
  28. E

    Where Can I Find Dark Matter Bibliography and Experimental Results?

    [b]1. Homework Statement [/b where i can find articles and paper on the subject of dark matter and the most recent experimental resolts on this subject? Any suggestions on bibliography? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution
  29. L

    Evolution Bibliography: Expert Texts for Advanced Readers

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  30. L

    Evolutionary computing bibliography [Deadline- ]

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  31. L

    LaTeX Change \bibitem to 1. in LateX Bibliography Style

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  32. E

    LaTeX Solving Latex Bibliography Issues

    [SOLVED] latex question When I compile that with the texnic center, the numbering the bibliography is messed up. Does anyone know why?
  33. N

    LaTeX Latex Bibliography Without Title

    [SOLVED] Latex Bibliography Whenever I create a bibliography in latex using \bibliographystyle{plain} \begin{thebibliography}{1} \bibitem{Reference 1}Details about Reference 1 \bibitem{Reference 2}Details about Reference 2 \end{thebibliography} It puts the title `References'...
  34. L

    Recommended Books for Feynman's Path Integrals in QM | Bibliography Suggestions

    Hi, I'm looking for books about the Feymann's Path integrals for QM, which books can you recommend me? or which website could be useful Thanks for your time and attention.
  35. P

    What are the earliest online publications discussing the Twin Paradox?

    I was wondering if anyone knew of any works that can be accessed online that were published before they were put online that deal with the Twin paradox? Thanks. - to a mentor, sorry I forgot that this belongs in the SR thread.
  36. marcus

    Loop-and-allied QG bibliography

    Intuitive content of Loop Gravity--Rovelli's program In the "perche i nostri discorsi" thread, selfAdjoint gave a concise sketch of the direction that Carlo Rovelli sees in loop gravity A few posts later in the thread I suggested trying to map out an intuitive description of what Loop...
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