  This article explores citing and referencing systems in Social Sciences and
Medicine articles from different theoretical and practical perspectives,
considering bibliographic references as a facet of descriptive representation.
The analysis of citing and referencing elements (i.e. bibliographic references,
mentions, quotations, and respective in-text reference pointers) identified
citing and referencing habits within disciplines under consideration and errors
occurring over the long term as stated by previous studies now expanded. Future
expected trends of information retrieval from bibliographic metadata was
gathered by approaching these referencing elements from the FRBR Entities
concepts. Reference styles do not fully accomplish with their role of guiding
authors and publishers on providing concise and well-structured bibliographic
metadata within bibliographic references. Trends on representative description
revision suggest a predicted distancing on the ways information is approached
by bibliographic references and bibliographic catalogs adopting FRBR concepts,
including the description levels adopted by each of them under the perspective
of the FRBR Entities concept. This study was based on a subset of Medicine and
Social Sciences articles published in 2019 and, therefore, it may not be taken
as a final and broad coverage. Future studies expanding these approaches to
other disciplines and chronological periods are encouraged. By approaching
citing and referencing issues as descriptive representation's facets, findings
on this study may encourage further studies that will support Information
Science and Computer Science on providing tools to become bibliographic
metadata description simpler, better structured and more efficient facing the
revision of descriptive representation actually in progress.
