The bibliographical reference: A review of its role

The bibliographical references. or citations. mat are often gathered at the end of a scientific document or spread over in the text as footn.otes, have a varied and distinct function in scientific communication. They contribute to scientific bricklaying. provide the necessary ·currency· for recognition of a particular scientist among his peers as well as for establishing his property rights and priority claims with respect to the scientific contribution he makes, constitute an important source of information for the scientist. serve as a tool for some of the recent techniques of literature indexing and, above all. help to gauge the information gathering habits of scientists and indicate therefrom the literature that are indispensable to their work. This in turn, provide the librarians and do currrerrta.l is t a with the basic data necessary for formulation of library aquisition programmes.

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