bibcode
(reference code for a journal article)
A bibcode is a type of reference code to identify journal
articles, used by some astrophysics journal-article
repositories and indexes, consisting of 19
ascii characters used as follows:
- four characters for the year.
- a five character journal abbreviation/code.
- four characters for the volume number.
- one character for the section (or first digit of a five-digit starting page).
- four characters for the starting page.
- one character for first character of last name of first author.
Unused characters are filled with periods.
Some databases that make use of it:
Example bibcode: 1996AAS...189.0603B
(reference)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/help_pages/data.html
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/guide/refcode/refcode-paper.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003lisa.conf...59G/abstract
Referenced by page:
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
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