An annotated bibliography has entries which include " ... note[s] ... intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to" ( ALA Glossary , p. 8).

A current bibliography records currently or recently published material, with the intent of reporting the recent literature as it appears.

A national bibliography is "A bibliography of documents published in a particular country and, ... documents ... written in the language of the country" ( ALA Glossary , p.151).

A period bibliography lists works about a given time period.

A retrospective bibliography "... lists documents or parts of documents, such as articles, published in previous years, as distinct from a current bibliography ... . Retrospective bibliographies are frequently divided into two types ... [one of which is] research-oriented, [and] are intended as jumping-off points for those doing research in the topic covered ..." ( ALA Glossary, p.194).

A serial bibliography appears at fixed intervals of time, e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, and has as its mission the reporting of titles, often both book titles and article titles (as well as dissertations, book reviews, pamphlets, and other types of material) as they appear.

A subject bibliography lists works about a given subject.