A T U Y P I

A very short description

ATUYPI is an easy to memorize natural text-only format for reference data of – mainly scientific and engineering – publications. The main feature of this non-tagged simple format is that the bibliographic types (article, book, thesis, chapter of a book, web site,…) and data fields (author, page, volume…) are recognizable even by a computer program.

The next example has bibliography records for an article, a book, and a thesis. In a bibliography list every record may start with a label. Two records separated by an empty line.

1. Lenstra, A K, Lenstra, H W (Jr), Lovász, L,
"Factoring polynomials with rational coefficients", 
"Mathematische Annalen" 261(4), 1982, 515–534, 
doi:10.1007/BF01457454

2. Geddes, K.O., Czapor, S.R., Labahn, G. "Algorithms 
for Computer Algebra", Kluwer, 1992

3. Schafer, Benjamin W., "Cold-formed steel behavior and 
design: analytical and numerical modeling of elements 
and members with longitudinal stiffeners", 'PhD thesis', 
Cornell University; Ithaca, NY, USA, 1997

The key idea is that ATUYPI uses the same field order for every bibliography type, and these types are determined by the fields included. The acronym ATUYPI defines the order of fields:

• A: Author (editor, translator)
• T: Title (or type) of document
• U: U-fields (volUme, issUe and pUblisher)
• Y: Year (or date)
• P: Page(s) and/or web Page
• I: Identifiers (DOI, Patent No., Report No., arXiv, ISBN, ISSN,…)

The author-title pair can be repeated at most three times, where the author or title field can be missing. For example, in a journal article an author-title pair is given for the article and a title (without author) for the journal.

More help

A more detailed description can be found here.

Please, use this parser to check the correctness of a bibliography list written in ATUYPI.

An HTML form to construct ATUYPI items.

Date: 2012-09-02 CEST