Choosing an Appropriate Style for Bibliographic Indices and Lists: A Comparative Analysis of Russian and Foreign Approaches (in Russian)

Mints M. M. “Vybor oformleniia dlia bibliograficheskogo ukazatelia: Sravnitel’nyi analiz rossiiskikh i zarubezhnykh podkhodov” [Choosing an appropriate style for bibliographic indices and lists: a comparative analysis of Russian and foreign approaches]. In Vzaimovliianie informatsionno-bibliotechnoi sredy i obshchestvennykh nauk: Sbornik materialov nauchnogo seminara [Mutual influence of the information and library environment and of social sciences: Proceedings of a seminar], edited by S. V. Sokolov, 7: 85–99. Moscow: INION RAN, 2025.

The article provides a comparative analysis of the Russian bibliographic standards (GOST R 7.0.100 and GOST R 7.0.5) and of their equals in the English-speaking world as well as of the particularities of their actual use from the viewpoint of styling a bibliographic index or a bibliographic list. This analysis shows that the most appropriate solution for such indices and lists in Russian is a full bibliographic description of each item styled according to GOST R 7.0.5 instead of GOST R 7.0.100 which is most often used in Russia in such cases.

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