The current example shows how a collection may look. There is a leading metadata object, followed by the records list.

The records show an example of the main sort of record likely to be in a bibjson collection – it is about an article published by some author in some journal. Subsequent records demonstrate that further information about said author and journal can also be included just by adding them as another record.

{
    "metadata": {
        "created": "2011-10-31T16:05:23.055882",
        "format": "bibtex",
        "from": 0,
        "id": "my_collection",
        "label": "My collection of records",
        "modified": "2011-10-31T16:05:23.055882",
        "owner": "test",
        "query": "http://bibsoup.net/test/my_collection.json?",
        "records": 1594,
        "size": 3,
        "source": "http://webaddress.com/collection.bib",
        "specification": "0.81",
        "namespaces":{
            "bibo": "http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/"
        }
    },
    "records": [
        {
            "author": [
                "Erdös, Paul"
            ],
            "citekey": "ID_1",
            "collection": ["my_collection"],
            "journal": "American Journal of Mathematics",
            "id": "13621350d78e46ed81d1daf3c0cfe0f4",
            "identifiers":[
                {
                    "id": "0002-9327",
                    "type": "issn"
                }
            ],
            "links":[
                {
                    "url": "http://cottagelabs.com",
                    "anchor": "Cottage Labs"
                }
            ]
            "pages": "974--976",
            "title": "On a family of symmetric Bernoulli convolutions",
            "type": "article",
            "url": "http://bibsoup.net/record/my_collection/ID_1",
            "volume": "61",
            "year": "1939"
        },
        {
            "type": "author",
            "citekey": "paulerdos",
            "author": "Erdös, Paul",
            "alternates": ["Paul Erdos"],
            "firstname": "Paul",
            "lastname": "Erdös"
        },
        {
            "type": "journal",
            "citekey": "amerjmath",
            "journal": "American Journal of Mathematics",
            "shortcode": "Amer. J. Math."
        }
    ]
}