It is more difficult to cite a manuscript than the preceding documents, because a manuscript does not always contain all information necessary for a bibliographic citation. Therefore, it may happen more often than elsewhere that we obtain much of the information from a source other than from the manuscript directly. Such information needs to be placed in square brackets (e.g. when the author gave us an unsigned manuscript, we may know where the author worked in the time of writing the text, etc.). The example below cites notes from the estate of a deceased author. The following comments will explain why each part of the bibliographic reference is written in its respective way.
[Mačák J.] Epstein-Barr virus in the pathogenesis of Hodgkin's lymphoma. [1987-1993]. 1 p. Located at: University Campus Library, Brno, Czechoslovakia; S-1.
Information about the author and year of publication are placed in square brackets because they were not properly stated anywhere in the manuscript. The author’s name and surname – Prof Jiří Mačák – was identified based on the fact that the notes were part of his bequeathal to the University Campus Library (KUK). The year of publication or rather the span of years when the notes were written was determined based on the following facts: in the manuscript a publication from 1987 is cited, and the notes were parts of documents from the years 1978–1993.
For the place of publication, we entered Czechoslovakia, because almost the whole period when the notes were written coincides with the existence of that country.
As far as the localization of the document is concerned, at the end of the bibliographic reference a signature is provided under which this manuscript is stored in the University Campus Library.