Strictly speaking, you only need to fill in the required fields (marked with an asterisk), most importantly title, year, author, and category. However, the more information you provide, the more accurate the entry becomes to facilitate future use.

In order to avoid dublicates, please make sure that your entry is not already in the database before you submit.

Currently, Bibliographia Kurdica only features works in the fields of linguistics or related language studies. As such, we are only accepting entries that deal with linguistic research, learning material, dictionaries, translation studies, or any other directly relevant topics within these fields.

Please refrain from sending in works form other academic fields, even if related to Kurdish studies. In the long run, the database will be able to publish in other scientific areas as well. If you are unsure whether a work will fit in, you can always contact us.

There are five publication types you can choose from: Monograph, Section In, Journal Article, Thesis and Web Content. Depending on the type, additional fields pop up. Before filling in any information, please choose the right publication type. If you have trouble deciding, please consult the decision tree below.

This is a required field. Please state in which language the work is written in. If it is a multilingual publication, choose the primary language. If you cannot find the language of your choice in the dropdown list, please contact us.

Remember to add a translation to your entry if it is not written in English.

Title is a required field. This field serves as the headline for the publication and is the first thing a visitor will see. If you want to add a subbtitle, an additional field is provided.

Please transcribe titles from other writing systems into the latin alphabet, since this will facilitate the search.

This is an optional field. Subtitles are useful for providing information that did not fit into the title.

If your work is not written in English, please provide a translation of your title here.

Author is a required field. Here, the author or authors of the publication are listed. You can add multiple authors by pressing the Enter button.

Important: Please use the following format when submitting author names: Last Name(s), First name.

Since the bibliography will be displayed alphabetically, the last name should come first.

Like author, editor is a required field for the type Section In. Here, the editor or editors of the collective publication are listed. You can add multiple editors by pressing the Enter button.

Important: Please use the following format when submitting editor names: Last Name(s), First name.

This is an optional field. Here you can provide information that might be relevant but do not belong into the title, like the edition of the publication, the name of the translator, or any other specification.

This is a required field. Please provide the year in which the publication was released by typing or choose via the dropdown menu.

If a publication has no year indicated, activate the check mark „no year“ to deactivate the field.

This is a required field. Publisher refers to a publishing house, company, university, state department, individual etc., basically any entity that provided the means of publication and is stated as such.

If a publication remains unpublished, activate the check mark „unpublished“ to indicate that.

This is a required field for the type Section In. This field refers to the body of work in which the entry was published as a part, e.g., collected volumes, handbooks, collections of essays etc. Please provide only the title of the work.

Here, the place of publication as stated in the published work is stated. This field is not necessary for unpublished works.

If you have selected the publication type Thesis, please select the type of thesis from the dropdown menu. If the entry does not confirm to the system of Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD Thesis, please choose „other“.

If you have selected the publication type Thesis, please provide the name of the university or place of higher education that hosted the publication.

This is a required field for the type Journal Entry. Please provide the name of the journal in which the entry has been published.

This is a required field for the type Journal Entry. Please provide the volume of the journal in which the entry has been published

This is an optional field. Enter the issue number, if your journal is sorted by issue (number) in adition to volume.

If your work is part of a collection or a journal, please provide the relevant page numbers of the publication here.

This is an optional field. If your publication has a unique DOI number, you can post it here. Alternatively, you can provide the DOI link in the field Link to publication.

These are optional fields. If at hand, you can provide the ISBN resp. ISSN of your publication to be displayed on the website.

Apart from the publication type Web Content, this is an optional field. You can provide the hyperlink for the publication. If provided, an active link will be displayed in the final entry.

Please make sure that your hyperlink is functional, i.e., usually starting with https://

Here, you can provide a short to medium-length description of the content and nature of the publication. It is optional, but recommended, since the reader (and equally important: search engines) will gain more insight into what the entry is about. For example, one can provide an extract, abstract, or exposé of the publication.

This is a required field. Every entry needs to have a category. Categories are used for the search function and for connecting existing entries. The category is a broad description of the academic sub-field of a publication. Naturally, it is often the case that multiple categories apply.

Please choose a category from the list. You can select multiple categories by holding down CTRL (resp. Command on Mac), or for mobile devices by touching the individual dropdown elements.

If you are unsure about your Category, please choose „Other“.

If you think an important category is missing, please contact us.

Tags are similar to Category, but optional and not predefined. Users can add one or more tags to their publication in order to link the entry with specific labels and thus facilitate the grouping, search, and identification of the entries. Tags are like Keywords in published articles.