Michael S Engel1, Dmitry E Shcherbakov. 1. Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
The following list provides citations for 363 scientific contributions, including 13 edited volumes and books, produced by Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn. Naturally, the list presented here is a static representation of Alex’s contributions and we look forward to years of his forthcoming publications to our shared science. Thus, this list only encompasses those papers published as of 1 August 2011. We have published it here so as to bring to the attention of colleagues Alex’s numerous and multifaceted accomplishments, and why he so richly deserves our admiration. In addition, we believe the following list is the most thorough and accurate accounting of his published scientific activities. Given that many of his works are in his native Russian, we believe this list will serve as a tool for directing interested individuals to English translations, where available.In elaborating this list we have taken a detailed approach to cataloguing Alex’s numerous publications, adopting the philosophy that bibliography is a science of its own and provides an accurate description of a work or contribution to a work (e.g., Gaskell 1972). It is with this philosophy in mind that the list was constructed and how to determine what should, or should not, constitute an individual citation, the appropriate form of citation, etc.PageBreakTo the best of our ability we have checked article and serial titles, as well as dates of publication and complete citations against original sources, either from the original series or official reprints. In addition, some serials and edited volumes have been checked against library copies at the University of Kansas (Lawrence) or the Library of Congress (Washington DC). Several of Alex’s contributions appear in special edited issues of otherwise serial publications. These are cited as they appear in the journal series, with the editors and titles of the special issues following in parentheticals.
Serial titles
Understandably many of the serials in which Alex has published have titles in Cyrillic. The transliterated versions of these are used throughout the bibliography and we have provided here a summary of those titles and their English equivalents.Byulleten’ Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskiy [Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Series Biology]Byulleten’ Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody, Otdel Geologicheskiy [Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Series Geology]Doklady
Akademii Nauk SSSR (since 1992, Doklady
Akademii Nauk)[Transactions of the Academy of Sciences, USSR (since 1992, of the Russian Academy of Sciences), or sometimes appearing simply as “Doklady” followed by the English name of the particular section, e.g., “Doklady. Biological Sciences Section”]Doklady Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Zoologia i Botanika [Reports of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Zoology and Botany]Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie [Entomological Review]Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya [Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, Biology Series]Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal [Paleontological Journal]Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR (since 1992, …Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk)[Transactions of the Paleontological Institute, Academy of Sciences, USSR (since 1992, Russian Academy of Sciences)]Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva [Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society]Trudy Sovmestnoy Sovetsko-Mongol’skoy Paleontologicheskoy Ekspeditsii [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition]Uspekhi Sovremennoy Biologii [Achievements in Modern Biology]Vestnik Permskogo Universiteta, Geologiya [Bulletin of Perm’ University, Geology]Vestnik Zoologii [Zoological Herald]Zhurnal Obshchey Biologii [Journal of General Biology]Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal [Zoological Journal]