BIBLIOGRAPHIC ERRORS IN REVISTA-ESPANOLA- DE-ENFERMEDADES-DIGESTIVAS - A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY FOR 1995

Objective: To determine the accuracy of bibliographic citation in Revi sta Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas (REED) and compare it with oth er Spanish and international journals. Methods: We reviewed all 1995 v olumes of the REED and randomly selected 100 references from these vol umes, Nine citations of non-journal articles were excluded and the rem aining 91 citations were carefully scrutinized. Each original article was compared for author's name, title of article, name of journal, vol ume number, year of publication and pages. Results: Some type of error was detected in 61.6% of the references and on 3 occasions (3.3%) imp eded finding to the original article. Errors were found in authors (37 .3%); article title (16.4%), pages (6.6%), journal title (4.4%), volum e (2.2%) and year (1%), A single error was found in 42 citations, 2 we re found in 13 and 3 were found in 1. Conclusions: REED's rate of erro r in references is comparable to the rates of other spanish and intern ational journals, Authors should exercise more care in preparing bibli ographies and should invest more effort in verification of quoted refe rences.