bibliographic standards

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Dear Dr Laura Goering,
You wrote
  >>Is there such a thing as a guide to standard Russian bibliographic form?
  >>(i.e., something like the Chicago Manual of Style or MLA guide).  Anything
  >>on line?  Thanks.

Yes, there are. GOST 7.1-84 is the standard document to be
referenced. There are yet another two or three GOST documents
that relate to abbreviations used in bibliographies.
  If you don't have access to GOST documents (your
Institute of Standard will keep Soviet copies, I am sure), you may
be interested in looking in any of the standard reference books,
for example, Spravochnaja kniga redaktora i korrektora: Redakcionno-
tekhnicheskoe oformlenie izdanija, M., 1985, the 25th chapter of which
is devoted to Bibliografichekij apparat izdanija. Incidentally, there
are quite a number of similar reference books, and I am sure your
local (i.e. US) libraries do hold some of them. (The key word is
"tekhnicheskaja redakcija", or "copy editing" if you use a search engine).
  The on-line utility is, as far as I know, limited to a search engine
of GOST numbers (the key word you enter will show you the number of
related document, but not the document itself).

  Unfortunately, publications after the collapse of USSR tend to ignore
all the standard rules (e.g. you rarely come across with traditional
fonts like Obyknovennyj Novyj or Literaturnyj these days) thanks to the
wide usage of desk-top publishing with PCs. It is entirely up to you
now whether you adhere to the conventions or not.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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