Table 2.

Evolution of Bergey's Manual.

Edition	Year	Name of the manual	Editors	Type	References
1st	1901	Determinative Bacteriology	Frederick DC et al.	Print	[70]
1st	1923	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Bergey DH et al.	Print	[8]
2nd	1925	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Bergey DH et al.	Print	[69]
3rd	1930	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Bergey DH et al.	Print	[69]
4th	1934	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Bergey DH et al.	Print	[69]
5th	1939	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Bergey DH et al.	Print	[82]
6th	1948	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Breed RS et al.	Print	[83]
7th	1957	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Breed RS et al.	Print	[84]
8th	1974	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Buchanan RE et al.	Print	[85]
9th	1994	Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology	Holt JG et al.	Print	[81]
1st	2001	Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology	Boone DR et al.	Print	[86]
2nd	2012	Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology	Goodfellow M et al.	Print	[87]
1st	2015	Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria	Whitman WB et al.	Digital	[13]