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:
2024AJ....167..193T
which refers to
the article published in year 2024 in The Astronomical Journal,
Volume 167, page 193,
for which the first letter of the first author's last name begins with "T".
(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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