It was meant to showcase Spain's royal academy of history and provide a work of reference for libraries across the country.
We do hope and we are convinced that this supplementary issue will be a source of inspiration and knowledge, hopefully becoming a work of reference for intensivists, neurologists, neurointensivists, cardiologists and all emergency physicians alike.
Though he thought it among his finest works, for many its accounts of bygone bureaucratic battles and reliance on internal memos render it a work of reference only.
For a work of fiction, Illuminatus! contains a lot of references to songs, films, articles, novels and other media.
After moving permanently to London in 1760, Stubbs etched the plates for Anatomy of the Horse (1766), which became a major work of reference for naturalists and artists alike.
These have become a standard work of reference for generations of German students.
I shall keep it as an invaluable work of reference.
This year, CILIP's Information Services Group, which awards an annual prize for outstanding works of reference, has teamed up with the Youth Libraries Group to recognise the importance of reference books for children, too, with a shortlist featuring Tiny, The Invisible World of Microbes, Animalium, and the Greenaway-winning Shackleton's Journey, a recent triumph for Flying Eye Books.
In March, I had the privilege of working with Sergio Lopez in his Santa Rosa based studio for a series of reference photos.
Much of his output was for the Central Office of Information, the government's marketing and public information agency from 1946 until 2011, though he also did much work for publishers of reference works in the 1970s and 80s.
