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Need help with journal abbreviations - Eleatic Guest - 08-23-2006 Hello, I have found an interesting bibilography on 'Warfare in the Byzantine World', but I cannot make sense of many journal abbreviations, for example BZ,REB and BMGS. Is there a freely accessible and exhaustive list of journal abbreviations around? Regards Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Praefectusclassis - 08-23-2006 The standard abbreviations are either in L'Année Philologique ( http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/ ) which I think is not accessible without subscription (through a university library) or the Oxford Classical Dictionary. I have access to both, so I can have a look. BZ: Byzantinischer Zeitschrift. Can't find the others. Is that the abbreviation used? Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Jona Lendering - 08-23-2006 REB: Revue des études Byzantines My friend Bert van der Spek is currently publishing a book on ancient Babylonian chronicles, which, as you may or may not know, are closely related to astronomical texts ("ephemerides"). We have proposed to call the book Babylonian Ephemerides and Related Texts, abbreviation BERT. :wink: Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Eleatic Guest - 08-23-2006 Quote:Is that the abbreviation used? Yes. Here are all and some others from other sources: REB McGeer, E., 'Infantry versus Cavalry: The Byzantine Response', REB 46 (1988), 135-145 JRA Reddé, M., Mare Nostrum (Paris, 1986) reviewed by Le Bohec, Y., JRA 2 (1989), 326-331 BZ Davidson, H.R.E., 'The secret weapon of Byzantium', BZ 66 (1973), 66-74 BMGS Dennis, G.T., 'Flies, Mice and the Byzantine Crossbow', BMGS 7 (1981), 1-5 MHR Haldon, J., 'The Army and the Economy: The Allocation and Redistribution of Surplus Wealth in the Byzantine State' MHR 7.2 (1992), 133- AHR Goffart, W., 'Rome, Constantinople and the Barbarians', AHR 86 (1981), 275-306 BAR Coulston, J., 'Roman, Parthian and Sassanid Tactical Developments', Defence of the Roman and Byzantine East, BAR S297, eds. Freeman, P.W.M. and Kennedy, D.L., (Oxford, 1986), 59-75 GRBS = ? BSA = ? If there is no universal access, I herby propose that we make a comprehensive abbreviation list of our own, perhaps as a sticky. It certainly would be a useful resource for our studies. Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Praefectusclassis - 08-23-2006 JRA: Journal of Roman Archaeology (that review is Le Bohec praising Reddé. Makes for an interesting comparison with a condescending review of the same book by Ch.G.Starr):wink: BZ & REB: see above BAR is a series, British Archaeological Reports, published as separate books AHR: American Historical Review MHR: Mediterranean Historical Review BMGS: ? GRBS: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies BSA: Annuals of the British School at Athens Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Eleatic Guest - 08-23-2006 Quote:The standard abbreviations are either in L'Année Philologique ( http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/ ) which I think is not accessible without subscription ... The good message: it is accessible. http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/ other criteria -- periodical The not so good one: it fails to decipher quite a few abbreviations. Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Praefectusclassis - 08-23-2006 That's why the OCD comes in handy, even though it weighs about 5 pounds. :wink: Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Eleatic Guest - 08-23-2006 What about making a list of abbreviations here on RAT? I think especially new users who are interested in following up literature recommendations might not always dare to ask what the abbs actually mean. A list of 40, 50 abbs can help them out there. I mean, just imagine you were new to a forum on biochemistry or geomantics.... Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - mcbishop - 08-23-2006 Quote:What about making a list of abbreviations here on RAT? I think especially new users who are interested in following up literature recommendations might not always dare to ask what the abbs actually mean. A list of 40, 50 abbs can help them out there. I mean, just imagine you were new to a forum on biochemistry or geomantics.... The problem is, which abbreviations? There is no harmonised system for all of the archaeological and classical branches of the humanities and the two principal indexing sources, L'Année Philologique and Archäologische Bibliographie use different systems (and the Council for British Archaeology uses another one altogether ;-), and none by itself covers the whole of Roman military studies. I worked in an academic library for two years (where we had things like the Index Medicus and the World List of Scientific Periodicals which pretty much did the job) before I went to university and saw things from the other side of the library counter, so I know a bit about the perils of referencing. There is an ISO covering the abbreviation of periodical titles... but it costs; you'd have thought that if they wanted it to be a standard, they would have made it free (as in beer and in speech), wouldn't you? Makes me inclined to ignore it, I'm afraid, but that's just because I'm a GNU/Romantic... This all has a bearing on the fact that the First Spasm of the Roman Military Equipment Bibliography is in preparation as a BibTeX file and webpage (now that I have mastered BibTeX conversion) and that comes with an abbreviations file to make it work. That has the advantage that you only have to change the abbreviations once to make them effective throughout the database. Mike Bishop Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Eleatic Guest - 08-24-2006 Quote:BMGS Nobdy having an idea what BMGS could mean? I would love to read about Byzantine crossbows... PS: ANRW = ? Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Praefectusclassis - 08-24-2006 Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römische Welt Re: Need help with journal abbreviations - Dan Diffendale - 08-24-2006 Quote:Nobdy having an idea what BMGS could mean? I would love to read about Byzantine crossbows... Googling the article title "Flies, Mice and the Byzantine Crossbow" gives two results for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. |