A catalogue of texts can be constituted as a bibliography.
When to resort to bibliography
A writer may refer to the bibliography to allude to a document that he used as a source in his writing task or to cite content that, although not used in his work, can complement and enrich his writings by expanding the information they present.
In the first case, we can speak of enumerative or textual bibliography . This bibliography assumes a system of signs in relation to the texts . On the other hand, analytical, sociological or historical bibliography emphasizes the interpretation of concepts.
Set of publications
The bibliography can provide an overview of all publications on a certain topic or belonging to the same category. There is, therefore, the bibliography that brings together all the works published by the same author, the bibliography that includes publications published in a country or the bibliography that focuses on a time period, for example.
There are different ways to cite a bibliography.
Writers, especially those working on scientific or nonfiction topics, must use bibliographical reference criteria to cite the sources they use in their work. These references usually appear at the bottom of the page or at the end of the book and allow the reader to access the original source cited by the author and compare the data.
How to write a bibliography
Although there is no single way to cite a bibliography , in order to avoid multiple nomenclatures in the presentation of this type of data, a series of standards have been created that can help to clearly elaborate them.
The documents cited in a bibliography are those that could be used to extract relevant information in the publication being presented and their purpose is to facilitate readers' access to the originals from which said information comes.
When citing a particular work, the title and author should be written (in the case of a text written by numerous authors, each of them should be separated from each other by a semicolon. Things like "various authors", "anonymous", "etc.") should not be written, as well as the edition and the year in which it was first published.
Ways to cite
Thus, the most correct way to present a bibliography is: Author . Title of the work . Number of the edition used, unless it is the first one. Place where it was published and Publisher. ISBN of the book. Example: Jiménez Montoya, Pedro; García Meseguer, Álvaro; Morán Cabré, Francisco. Reinforced concrete. 14th ed. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2000.
If you wish to cite a particular chapter , it is advisable to use an outline headed by the author of the chapter, followed by the title, edition number, publisher and number of pages covered by the reference. Example: Nash, Mark. «The art of movement». In: Fields of force: an essay on the kinetic. Barcelona: MACBA, 2000, p. 313-316.
Finally, if you wish to refer to a work that belongs to an article published in a journal, you should write the author of the article, the title, the name of the journal, the volume and number (year in which it was published) and the pages it covers. Example: Gerngross, Tillman U.; Slater, Steven C. «Plastics of plant origin». Research and science, No. 289 (2000), p. 4-9.