This paper sums up and illustrates the different authoring modes in western languages cataloging such as writing, compiling, annotating, translating, drawing and photographing, sums up the description methods according to the characteristics of each authoring mode, and illustrates the combination of different authoring modes.

From the characteristics of the standard literature, this paper probes into the special description methods of the standard literature by using the actual examples.

The paper discusses coding blocks importance in CNMARC and the description method of its fields and uses lots of examples to explain this.

USMARC and CNMARC are the common standard description formats of publications in U.

The description formats of references from Internet in three journals of library and information science are collected, analyzed and verified.

This paper expounds the descriptive principle and method of references,introduces relevant standards and norms,illustrates the recording form of all kinds of bibliographic references with examples.

Through analyzing on the influence of abnormal recording form of the main title, coordinating titles and bound title on the retrieval of booklist data, this paper probes into the principle of standardized record of the title, and puts forward some corresponding measures.

We randomly select 100 Chinese sci-tech journals published in 2007 and 2008 as samples to investigate citation forms of English journal titles presented in bibliographic references of articles.