Análisis de redacción de referencias y citas bibliográficas en literatura científica, a través del estudio de la normalización bibliográfica.

Abstract

The work presents an approach to the use of the bibliographic normalization to carry references out, and bibliographic's citation in works of research's books (Monographs) and of journal's Articles, paper support as well as electronic. It starts from the existence of a wide range in the forms to cite and to index authors in the Scientific Literature, which provokes in the researches uncertainty, and forces them constantly change the presentation's form of their works to adapt them to the regulations that characterize each magazine in which they want to publish. The study tries to analyse this problem. To do this, three essential issues have been studied: 1) The international standars ISO 690 and 690-2 "Bibliographic references: content, form and structure"; also ISO 5966 "Presentation of scientific and technic's reports" and ISO 7144 "Presentations of thesis and similar documents". Thereby, they have been compared with their homonimous Spanish standars UNE 50104, 50135 and 50136, respectively. 2) Manuals ofinternational style's relevancy: Harvard; Chicago Manual of Style; Turabian; Vancouver; Harvard Law School; American Psychologycal Association (APA); Council of Biology Editors (CBE); Econometrica and Modern Language Association of America (MLA). 3) At last an analysis has been done over a sample of 154 titles of serials of several disciplines of the social science's afea, selecting as referentthe bibliometric analysis of the "Journal Citation Report 1997". Also, it studies the automatic systems for the presentation of articles such as "Reference Manager", "ProCite" and "Endnote". It includes the theme of evolution of the term "Bibliography" as well as the importance that this term has in works about methodology of investigation. The results of the study confirm that more than 36% of the journals do no have explicit rules, while a 45% marks its own standars, indepent from the internacional ones. The rest of them follow the dictations of the described standars either ISO or Manuals of style. However, it is very significant, that from the 450¡ that marks their own standars, in fact more rhan the half do not fulfil in their publications. It concludes with a call's attention about the urgency of the revision and update of the rules ISO and UNE for its adaptation of the bibliographics requirements for which chef were created, as one of the possible solutions to th diversity and heterogenity of the citation's systems.