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Entry types


Entry types are used to classify BibTeX entries according to their type. Currently, PUMA supports the following 24 types of publications:

  • article (a short entry representing an article from a journal or magazine)
  • book (a longer entry representing a book with an explicit publisher)
  • booklet (a work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution)
  • collection (a collection)
  • conference (a contribution to a conference that hasn't been published in the proceedings of a conference)
  • dataset (a dataset, e.g. used for experiments)
  • electronic (electronic publications, e.g. eBooks or blog entries)
  • inbook (a part of a book, which may be a chapter and/or a range of pages)
  • incollection (a part of a book with its own title)
  • inproceedings (an article in the proceedings of a conference)
  • manual (technical documentation, manual)
  • mastersthesis (a bachelor or master's thesis, a more precise specification is possible with the "type" field)
  • misc (an entry type used when nothing else seems appropriate)
  • patent (a patent)
  • periodical (regularly published work, e.g. a magazine)
  • phdthesis (a PhD thesis)
  • preamble (an introductory statement)
  • preprint (a preprint for a publication that will be published)
  • presentation (presentation, talk on an event)
  • proceedings (the proceedings of a conference)
  • standard (a technical standard, e.g. ISO/IETF)
  • techreport (a report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series)
  • unpublished (a document with an author and title, but not formally published)
  • preprint (a selected piece of work printed and distributed before the official publication date of the complete work, e.g. for a conference)

For all entrytypes these fields are required: title, author/editor and year. Some entrytypes have additional fields, that can be entered by the Users:

  • article: journal, volume, number, pages, month, language, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, note
  • book: publisher, volume, number, series, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
  • booklet: howpublished, address, month, language, DOI, ISN, note
  • inproceedings: publisher, booktitle, volume, number, series, pages, address, month, organization, language, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, note
  • dataset: DOI, url
  • electronic: language, DOI, note
  • inbook: chapter, pages, publisher, volume, number, series, type, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
  • incollection: publisher, booktitle, volume, number, series, type, chapter, pages, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
  • manual: organization, address, edition, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
  • masterthesis: school, type, address, month, language, DOI, ISBN, note
  • misc: howpublished, month, language, DOI, note
  • periodical: language, DOI, ISSN, note
  • presentation: language, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, note
  • proceedings: publisher, volume, number, series, address, month, language, DOI, ISBN, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, organization, note
  • techreport: institution, number, type, address, month, language, DOI, note
  • unpublished: language, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, eventdate, eventtitle, venue, note

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