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Bibliographic information - Consists of references or citations to other works, often texts such as books, journal articles, government documents, and published and unpublished technical reports.

Citation / citations - The information given in a periodical index, catalog, or bibliography about a particular book, article or other information resource. The citation may include the article title, periodical title, book title, place of publication, publisher, volume, pages, and date. To format citation s for your own bibliographies, refer to a style manual.

Example of a book citation :

Braine, G. (Ed.) (2005). Teaching English to the World: History, Curriculum, and Practice. Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.

Example of an article citation :

Brutt-Griffler, J. (1998). Conceptual questions in English as a world language: Taking up an issue. World Englishes, 17(3), 381-392.

Full-text database - A file containing the entire texts of articles or other documents, in contrast to bibliographic, databases, which contain records or citation s for the articles.