[DCRM-L] Abbreviation for botanical bibliography?

[Matthew Ducmanas]

Happy to help. There are few things I find more maddening than trying to
decipher an unknown citation abbreviation. Very thankful for the work of
the RBMS Standard Citation Forms group in this regard.

Cheers,
Matt

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Gemberling, Ted P <tgemberl at uab.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Matt. That appears to be right.
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> Ted
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> *From:* DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Matthew
> Ducmanas
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 29, 2018 8:28 PM
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] Abbreviation for botanical bibliography?
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> Hi Ted,
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> Possibly Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie? See https://www.deutsche-
> biographie.de/sfz70890.html with the ADB, 23 citation under Literatur.
> Links to http://www.ndb.badw.de/ndb_kurztitel.htm#ADB .
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> Cheers,
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> Matt
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> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 8:20 PM, Gemberling, Ted P <tgemberl at uab.edu>
> wrote:
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> Does anybody know what ADB stands for? I think it’s in a Harvard
> cataloging record in OCLC (#960073491). It mentions a version of the work
> cited by “ADB, 23:378-9.” I haven’t found any plausible name for a
> bibliography with that abbreviation. It can’t be Australian Dictionary of
> Biography, I don’t think. I looked up American Dictionary of Botany and
> didn’t find that title as existing. There is apparently no American
> Dictionary of Biology, either.
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> There is an American Dictionary of Biography, which is published in
> Australia (?) and somehow also called the Australian Dictionary of
> Biography, but why would it have information about this work?
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> I looked in the RBMS Standard Citation Forms database and didn’t find it.
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> Thanks for any enlightenment,
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> Ted Gemberling
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> UAB Lister Hill Library
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