Feature of the week: Entry Type Pictograms

In BibSonomy's post lists, each publication is represented as a box with the most important meta-information about it. Listed are the title, authors or editors, the venue (journal or book title) the year. For quite a while now, this list also includes the publication's entry type.

Other than title and authors, the entry type is displayed as a pictogram to the left of the post. In a previous blog post, we've already discussed the file upload options in BibSonomy. The entry-type pictograms are displayed, unless there is a thumbnail of a document attached to that post, that is visible to you.

To each of the 20 different supported entry types here are the according images:

	article
	book
	booklet
	conference
	electronic
	inbook
	incollection
	inproceedings
	manual
	mastersthesis
	misc
	patent
	periodical
	phdthesis
	preamble
	presentation
	proceedings
	standard
	techreport
	unpublished

The entry type of a publication has to be stated during the creation of a post. Often this is done for you when you use your post-publication button. If you enter a publication manually, you'll have to select it from a list in the post-publication dialogue. To learn more about the supported entry types of publications read our corresponding blog post or have a look at BibSonomy's home page to see which types have been uploaded recently.

Happy tagging
Stephan