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Organization of the bibliographical references for books

These bibliographical references include books (or monographs), pamphlets or booklets, dissertations and theses, company or government publications, etc. Please note that this subsection of the website is in fact an annex that updates and enlarges The automotive bibliography published by McFarland in 2003 (see homepage).
The entries are firstly ordered by language.
For each language (when necessary), there is a possibility of  7 subdivisions (chapters) divided among two parts. For a description of parts and chapters, see below.
For each chapter, the entries are ordered alphabetically by title.

To understand how each title is classified in the bibliographical references and how these references are given, see below.

Parts and chapters

Part 1 - Motor vehicles: the entries in part 1 refer to works whose content focuses mainly on the motor vehicles themselves, covering automobiles, sports, muscle, and racing cars, two-wheeled vehicles (including sidecars), police and military vehicles (excluding combat vehicles for the latter), ambulances, SUVs, pickups, trucks, prototypes, vans, and so on.

Part 2 - Motoring: this part comprises works whose main focus is one or several important themes of motoring's history, such as advertising, associations and clubs, design, engineering, industrial relations, labor unions, manufacturing, marketing, racing, rallying, servicing industry, sprinting, transport industry, traveling. Biographies of individuals are also classified in Part 2. Certain works in this part may have material about the motor vehicles themselves, but far from being a main characteristic.

Part 1 - Motor vehicles
Chapter 1: Works mainly on automobiles, sportscars, muscle cars or racing cars, including convertible as well as official or governemental, police, and military versions.

Chapter 2: Works mainly on two-wheeled vehicles (motorcycles, mopeds, scooters, etc.), including sidecars as well as racing, police, and military versions.

Chapter 3: Works mainly on buses and trolleybuses, trucks, emergency and specialized vehicles (like fire engines, ambulances, hearses, recovery vehicles, refuse collecting vehicles, funeral cars, amphibious vehicles), taxis, utility vehicles (vans, pickips, lightweight trucks, caravans, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), four-wheel drive vehicles), station wagons and woodies, three-wheelers, hot rods; also gathers works about prototype, customized, police, and military versions of these vehicles, as well as electric- and steam-powered vehicles. This chapter also covers works about automotive accessories and components (covering air pollution control, breaking system, chassis, clothing, coachwork, dashboard, decoration and ornament, electronics, engines, heating and ventilation, license plates, lighting, radio, serial numbers, starting devices, suspension and transmi ssion). Note that some motor vehicle marques are exclusively covered by this chapter: for Great Britain, there is Land-Rover, Range Rover, and Hummer, and for the United States, there is Jeep. Finally, works that have substantial material covering more than one of the first two chapters (1 and 2) are included in this chapter 3.

Chapter 4: covers mainly on business history in a general sense, covering the manufacturing of motor vehicles, of automotive accessories and components, of automotive bodies, as well as the related companies, and the automotive industry as a whole (or some of its particular aspects such as industrial relations including collective bargaining, grievance arbitration and industrial conflicts). The chapter also covers the service industry (including garages, services stations, dealerships, insurance, leasing and renting, maintenance and repair, parking, advertising and marketing for example) and the transport industry (bus and taxi transport and trucking essentially). Some particular topics are also covered here like commercial crimes.

Part 2 - Motoring
Chapter 5: covers works mainly on the adoption, consumption and diffusion of motor vehicles, on education, safety and regulation, on the impacts of motorization (for example on urban transportation), on advertising and marketing of motor vehicles (including sales literature but excluding books about companies and the industry in general), on designing and engineering of motor vehicles (excluding books about the companies and the industry in general), on the representation of motor vehicles and motoring in arts and medias (including museums), on automotive exhibitions, on automotive vocabulary, on road mapping in the motor vehicle age, on automotive memorabilia (including models and toys).

 Chapter 6: covers works mainly on motor racing, sprinting and speed record-breaking, hill-climb, drag and stock car racing, rallying, and traveling, as well as on particular races, racetracks, and racing teams.

Chapter 7: covers mainly biographies of individuals or histories of the various organizations related to motor vehicles manufacturing and use (motoring, racing or touring associations and clubs, manufacturers' and traders' organizations, transport and service industry organizations, labor unions). It also contains entries about different trades and professions born or transformed with motorization.

How it is made
Note: some of this information may be outdated as of June 2006.

For further information about the content of the books section of the site or about how it is compiled and organized, follow the links below.
A. Content
B. Classification of entries
C. How the bibliographical information is given

A. Content

Part 1 and part 2 together comprises over 4000 entries describing works of an historical nature published in 2001, 2002 and 2003, but also includes new editions or new volumes of works already included in The automotive bibliography (1).
This annex also comprises titles published before 2001 but that are not in The automotive bibliography.
Furthermore, contrarily to the latter, this annex includes books for children and juveniles (even the ones published before 2001) but it still does not include technical works (like restoration guides) or works about military combat vehicles (such as tanks).
Finally, to the 16 languages covered by The automotive bibliography (Danish, Dutch/Flemish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish), this annex adds works published in the following languages: Catalán, Estonian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, and Romanian, covering works published before and after 2000.
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(1) The automotive bibliography  has some 13,000 entries refering to works published in 2000 or before. Together, the bibliography and this annex have over 17,000 different entries.

B. Classification of the entries

Each entry of this annex have been classified in only one of the 2 parts (and only one of the chapters of these parts). The following diagram helps understand how it is done. From what is known of the subject (or the content) of an entry, classifying it means choosing, first, which part corresponds the best, and then, second, which chapter of the chosen part corresponds the best. It must be understood that this is a very highly subjective task, particularly since knowing the (complete) content of every book is a practical impossibility.

In the diagram, each arrow represents the passage from a subject (or content) of a smaller breath (or a lower level of generality) to a larger one (or a higher level of generality).

C. How the bibliographical information is given

Each entry in the bibliography can have up to 8 elements of information:
Author(s). Title. Imprint. Details on edition. Physical description. Notes.
 Description of the content.
Other and/or prior edition(s).
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The  name of author(s) are indicated when known with a maximum of three names.  The names are in alphabetical order when there is more than one. If there is more than three known authors, one has been chosen and followed by "et al.". 
     Following the author(s) name(s), when appropriate or available, the author(s)'s function(s) is(are) indicated (in paranthesis) such as editor(s), director(s) and/or compilor(s).

In italic red. Note that some books have more than one title, for example one for the American edition and the other for the British one. In such cases, one title have been chosen and the other inserted in . Titles of reedited books might also vary. In such cases, the latest edition has been chosen and prior titles inserted in . For multi-volumed works, the volume numbers and the subtitles are given in .

 Imprint = Place(s) of publication: publisher(s), date of publication. Indicated in that order and in the same parenthesis. For unknowns, the expressions 's. l.', 's. n.' and/or 's. d." respectively have been used. A '+' indicates that there is more than one place of publication and/or one publisher. 

 Details on edition = Edition, [series]. Firstly, when available or appropriate, are some details concerning the edition (such as first (1st), second (2nd), third (3rd), etc., and/or special, revised, limited, etc.). Secondly, when available or appropriate, the name of the series in which the work has been published is indicated followed by the ISSN number (in parenthesis) and the issue number, all three within the same brackets.

 Physical description. First is indicated the number of pages or the number of volumes. Second, the iconography is detailed: illustrations, charts, graphs or tables. For illustrations, three elements are specified, in parenthesis: a- their number or the number of pages, b- if they are in black and white and/or in color, and c- if there is other kinds of illustrations than photographs (such as ads, drawings, logos, maps, plans, portraits, etc. The dimensions of the work constitute the third element of physical description. Fourth, if the work has bibliographical referecences, glossary(ies) and/or index(es), it is indicated with the location or the number of pages. The fifth element is constituted by the ISBN number(s).

 Notes. In this element are indicated the names of contributors, editors, etc. If the work has been translated, it indicates in which language followed by the title. If the work is a translated version, it indicates by whom followed by the original title.

 Description of the content. This element can be constituted of three rubrics: 'comments', 'notes on contents', and 'table of contents'.

Other and/or prior edition(s). Generally gives the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication (see ). Can also give: (a) title(s) when different from the one indicated in , detail(s) concerning the edition (see ), a series (see ), and ISBN number(s) (see ).