Document Type Descriptions

· Article: Reports of research on original works. Includes research papers, features, brief communications, case reports, technical notes, chronology, and full papers that were presented at a symposium or conference.

· Art Exhibit Review: Reviews of gallery or museum showings of artworks.

· Bibliography: A list, often with descriptive or critical notes, of writings relating to a particular subject.

· Biographical-Item: Obituaries, articles focusing on the life of an individual, and articles that are tributes to or commemorations of an individual.

· Book Review: A critical appraisal of a book (often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation) that evaluates such aspects as organization and writing style, possible market appeal, and cultural, political, or literary significance.

· Correction: Correction of errors found in articles that were previously published and which have been made known after that article was published. Includes additions, errata, and retractions.

· Dance Performance Review: Reviews of solo dance recitals, complete dance productions, dance programs consisting of several works, and other types of performed dances.

· Database Review: A critical appraisal of a database, often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation. Refers to a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system.

· Editorial Material: An article that gives the opinions of a person, group, or organization. Includes editorials, interviews, commentary, and discussions between individual, post-paper discussions, round table symposia, and clinical conferences.

· Excerpt: A selection from or a fragment of a literary or musical work which cannot stand as a separate work in its own right.

· Fiction, Creative Prose: Includes short stories and other works of creative prose.

· Film Review: A review of a motion picture.

· Hardware Review: A critical appraisal of computer hardware, often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation. Refers to objects that you can actually touch, like disk drives, keyboards, printers.

· Letter: Contributions or correspondence from the readers to the journal editor concerning previously published material.

· Meeting Abstract: A general summation of completed papers that were or will be presented at a symposium or conference.

· Music Performance Review: Review of a live musical performance (recital, concert, and opera).

· Music Score: Transcript of the original and entire draft of a musical composition or an arrangement with the parts for the different instruments or voices written on staffs one above another.

· Music Score Review: Review of a bound musical composition or bound collection of musical compositions.

· News Item: News, current events, and recent developments.

· Poetry: Compositions in verse; metrical writing.

· Record Review: Reviews of recorded music or speech.

· Reprint: An article that was previously published.

· Review: A renewed study of material previously studied. Includes review articles and surveys of previously published literature. Usually will not present any new information on a subject.

· Script: includes film scripts, plays, TV, and radio scripts.

· Software Review: A critical appraisal of computer software, often reflecting a reviewer's personal opinion or recommendation. Refers to programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system.

· TV Review, Radio Review, and Video Review: Reviews of television, radio broadcasts, and videos.

· Theater Review: Review of a performed play.