bibliography

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A list of the works of a specific author or publisher.
• noun A list of writings relating to a given subject.
• noun A list of writings used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work.
• noun The description and identification of the editions, dates of issue, authorship, and typography of books or other written material.
• noun A compilation of such information.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The writing of books.
• noun The science which treats of books, their materials, authors, typography, editions, dates, subjects, classification, history, etc.
• noun A classified list of authorities or books on any theme: as, the bibliography of political economy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.
• noun a list of books or other printed works having some common theme, such as topic, period, author, or publisher.
• noun a list of the published (and sometimes unpublished) sources of information referred to in a scholarly discourse or other text, or used as reference materials for its preparation.
• noun the branch of library science dealing with the history and classification of books and other published materials.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referenced in the work.
• noun A list of books or documents relevant to a particular subject or author.
• noun The study of the history of books in terms of their classification, printing and publication.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)