... to Figure 1 , the four most adopted reference styles are APA 6th ed. 2010 (8.05% of total journals sample), Vancouver (10.73% of entire journals sample) and Chicago (4.69% of total journals sample). Those referred to as “own reference styles” (46.97% of total articles sample) correspond to customised...

... by previous studies now expanded. Future expected trends of information retrieval from bibliographic metadata was gathered by approaching these referencing elements from the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) entities concepts. Findings Reference styles do not fully accomplish...