| Field Name | Definition/Scope Note |
| Publication Type | Article; Book; Book Chapter; Conference Paper; Patent; Technical Report; Other. |
| Authors | A person, organization, or service responsible for the content of the work(s). |
| Title | Title statement/main title of the article, book, chapter, conference proceeding, etc. |
| Publication/Journal | Journal title, title of book in which chapter occurs, title of conference in which conference proceeding occurs, etc. |
| Volume | Volume number of journal or serial |
| Issue | Issue number of journal or serial |
| Paging | Beginning and ending page number(s) of work |
| Year | Date of publication or distribution. |
| Publisher | Entity responsible for publication, distribution, or imprint; publisher of the previously issued instance of the work. |
| Citation | Bibliographic citation for works that have been published as a part of a larger work, e.g. journal articles, book chapters. |
| Series/Report No. | Series name and number within that series, if available; used for working papers, technical reports, etc. |
| Identifiers | Such as ISSN, Other, ISMN, Govt Doc#, URI, ISBN. |
| Language | English (United States); English; Spanish; German; French; Italian; Japanese; Chinese; (Other); N/A (for non-language works) |
| Subject Keywords | Key words or phrases that describe the intellectual content of the work. |
| Abstract | Abstract or summary. |
| Sponsors | Information about sponsoring agencies, individuals, or contractual arrangements (such as funding codes) for an item. |
| Description | Any descriptive information not in the abstract (such as number of pages in a document, date and location of a presentation, etc.) |