Therianthropic Reference List: Entry Format

Below is a complete example entry from the list. No entry yet uses every field as shown.

The name is obvious. Because of the diverse subjects covered in the list, it has been sorted by Author name. Editors are differentiated from authors by the suffix (Ed), where known

Series title is not present in all entries. It applies either to a sequence of books by the same author, about different aspects of a particular topic, or to a collection of published works by different authors, about common subjects. Useful, as series' are sometimes shelved separately. Question marks on a listed title may indicate its use within a catalogue or list, but a notable absence on the book itself.

Title is straightforward, with the copyright year indicating when it was actually written. Multiple dates may indicate a major revision. Question marks on a date indicate ambiguity with available information. [Language] indicates the original works native language, if not English.

Subtitles: Only listed if used. If different subtitles for the same book exist in different editions, then all known are listed above their respective publishing info.

ISBN is the unique ID of the edition listed. Advantageous when ordering a copy. (ISBN?) indicates the info is unknown. (No ISBN?) indicates a book on which the number could not be found, and where the book is possibly old enough to predate the system, but damage / missing dust jacket etc. preclude a definitive answer. (No ISBN) indicates an old, intact volume, sporting a publishers proprietary code, or nothing at all.

The secondary entry below the first is used to detail the English language version of the of a non-English original. The book will almost always be found under the original authors name (out-of-copyright works may be an exception!), but different translations, of differing quality, by different translators, may need to be mentioned.

(?B) indicates the books binding, (CB) cloth bound, (HB) hard back, or (PB) paper back.

Pubname is that of the edition publisher, suffixed with the country of origin (UK), (US) etc., where known.

PubYr is the year of publication. May differ significantly from the copyright year.

CvrPrice is the price written on the back of the listed edition. Pre-decimal UK prices have been converted to decimal equivalents. If this figure is followed by a second in brackets, this indicates either the local price of an imported volume, or the purchase price of a secondhand book. PubYr may be a good indicator of which explanation applies.

Rating Information is a breakdown of the books topical content into a series of two-letter codes. These are detailed on the next page.

The review is what the contributor has to say about this book. (no info) indicates that I know nothing at all about the book. It is listed either because it has an explicitly therianthropic title, that it turned up in a bibliography of another on-topic book, or that it has been mentioned significantly in some Internet conversation or document. Reviews starting with the word apparently, are based on inferences, here-say, other reviews, or other imprecise sources I have as yet been unable to verify against the actual book.

Finally, Contrib ID is a reference to the people and places where I dug all this stuff up from. If multiple sources are used to compile an entry, credit is given to the source of the review over that of the publishing info.