Bulletin Signaletique

The main source for the post-1959 literature was the abstracting journal. Bulletin Signaletique, published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. All entries are based on original references and for pre-1960 entries a cross-reference is also given to Structure Reports and to the Tables of Interatomic Distances. 

The only conference proceedings that were systematically scanned are those of the International Union of Crystallography. Abstracts of these conferences are published in Acta Cryst., Vol. 13 (1960) and as special supplements to Vol. 16 (1963) and Vol. 21 (1966). They can be recognised in the bibliography by the letter A used as a prefix to the page number. American theses are covered by Dissertation Abstracts, as reported in Bulletin Signaletique. 

The system of abbreviations of journal names is largely that adopted by Bulletin Signaletique. 

Abstracts appear in Bulletin Signaletique some 6-10 months following the publication in the primary journal. Vols. 1 and 2, therefore, are fully comprehensive only to Dec. 31, 1968, though the the 1969 literature covers about 530 publications and is complete for two journals, viz. Acta Cryst. and Chemical Communications. 

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