Feature of the week: Entry Type Pictograms

In BibSonomy's post lists, each publication is represented as a box with the most important meta-information about it. Listed are the title, authors or editors, the venue (journal or book title) the year. For quite a while now, this list also includes the publication's entry type.

Other than title and authors, the entry type is displayed as a pictogram to the left of the post. In a previous blog post, we've already discussed the file upload options in BibSonomy. The entry-type pictograms are displayed, unless there is a thumbnail of a document attached to that post, that is visible to you.

To each of the 20 different supported entry types here are the according images:

	article
	book
	booklet
	conference
	electronic
	inbook
	incollection
	inproceedings
	manual
	mastersthesis
	misc
	patent
	periodical
	phdthesis
	preamble
	presentation
	proceedings
	standard
	techreport
	unpublished

The entry type of a publication has to be stated during the creation of a post. Often this is done for you when you use your post-publication button. If you enter a publication manually, you'll have to select it from a list in the post-publication dialogue. To learn more about the supported entry types of publications read our corresponding blog post or have a look at BibSonomy's home page to see which types have been uploaded recently.

Happy tagging
Stephan

Feature of the Week: New BibTeX Entry types

When a publication is posted to BibSonomy one of the most important fields of that post is the publication's entry type. There are 14 regular BibTeX entry types - e. g. “article” or “book” being the most common ones.

BibSonomy has supported 13 of those types and in our last release we have added the missing 14th: “conference”.

Over time, there has been great demand for a new BibTeX entry type that allows posting presentations. We are happy to announce that “presentation” is one of six new non-regular (!) entry types, that we have implemented in BibSonomy. Here is a list of the new types:

• electronic: references electronic publications like articles on the web or blog posts
• patent: references patent documents
• periodical: references magazines or other regularly appearing publications
• preamble: references preambles
• presentation: references slides from your talks, seminars or lectures
• standard: references documents describing norms, guidelines, etc.

The new types can be selected during the publication posting.
Our system tag “sys:entrytype:” can help you search for publication posts of a desired type. E. g. searching for “sys:entrytype:standard” returns only publications of type “standard”.
One final remark before you start posting your new BibTeX type posts: Those six new types are non-regular types. That means, they are used in BibSonomy and other applications but they do not belong the the 14 canonical types that are usually understood by all BibTeX styles. Depending on what style you use for your literature references you might sometimes have to adjust either the entry type of the reference or the BibTeX style.