diff --git a/R/KorAPQuery.R b/R/KorAPQuery.R
index 9b77c39..f6addcc 100644
--- a/R/KorAPQuery.R
+++ b/R/KorAPQuery.R
@@ -97,7 +97,20 @@
 #'   of the RKorAPClient Readme on GitHub and set the `metadataOnly` parameter to
 #'   `FALSE`.
 #' @param ql string to choose the query language (see [section on Query Parameters](https://github.com/KorAP/Kustvakt/wiki/Service:-Search-GET#user-content-parameters) in the Kustvakt-Wiki for possible values.
-#' @param fields (meta)data fields that will be fetched for every match.
+#' @param fields character vector specifying which metadata fields to retrieve for each match.
+#' Available fields depend on the corpus. For DeReKo (German Reference Corpus), possible fields include:
+#' \describe{
+#'   \item{**Text identification**:}{`textSigle`, `docSigle`, `corpusSigle` - hierarchical text identifiers}
+#'   \item{**Publication info**:}{`author`, `editor`, `title`, `docTitle`, `corpusTitle` - authorship and titles}
+#'   \item{**Temporal data**:}{`pubDate`, `creationDate` - when text was published/created}
+#'   \item{**Publication details**:}{`pubPlace`, `publisher`, `reference` - where/how published}
+#'   \item{**Text classification**:}{`textClass`, `textType`, `textTypeArt`, `textDomain`, `textColumn` - topic domain, genre, text type and column}
+#'   \item{**Adminstrative and technical info**:}{`corpusEditor`, `availability`, `language`, `foundries` - access rights and annotations}
+#'   \item{**Content data**:}{`snippet`, `tokens`, `tokenSource`, `externalLink` - actual text content, tokenization, and link to source text}
+#'   \item{**System data**:}{`indexCreationDate`, `indexLastModified` - corpus indexing info}
+#' }
+#' Use `c("textSigle", "pubDate", "author")` to retrieve multiple fields.
+#' Default fields provide basic text identification and publication metadata. The actual text content (`snippet` and `tokens`) are activated by default  if `metadataOnly` is set to `FALSE`.
 #' @param accessRewriteFatal abort if query or given vc had to be rewritten due to insufficient rights (not yet implemented).
 #' @param verbose print some info
 #' @param as.df return result as data frame instead of as S4 object?
@@ -115,10 +128,17 @@
 #' @examples
 #' \dontrun{
 #'
-#' # Fetch metadata of every query hit for "Ameisenplage" and show a summary
+#' # Fetch basic metadata for "Ameisenplage"
 #' KorAPConnection() %>%
 #'   corpusQuery("Ameisenplage") %>%
 #'   fetchAll()
+#'
+#' # Fetch specific metadata fields for bibliographic analysis
+#' query <- KorAPConnection() %>%
+#'   corpusQuery("Ameisenplage",
+#'               fields = c("textSigle", "author", "title", "pubDate", "pubPlace", "textType"))
+#' results <- fetchAll(query)
+#' results@collectedMatches
 #' }
 #'
 #' \dontrun{
diff --git a/man/corpusQuery-KorAPConnection-method.Rd b/man/corpusQuery-KorAPConnection-method.Rd
index d921eb6..f4631d7 100644
--- a/man/corpusQuery-KorAPConnection-method.Rd
+++ b/man/corpusQuery-KorAPConnection-method.Rd
@@ -45,7 +45,20 @@
 
 \item{ql}{string to choose the query language (see \href{https://github.com/KorAP/Kustvakt/wiki/Service:-Search-GET#user-content-parameters}{section on Query Parameters} in the Kustvakt-Wiki for possible values.}
 
-\item{fields}{(meta)data fields that will be fetched for every match.}
+\item{fields}{character vector specifying which metadata fields to retrieve for each match.
+Available fields depend on the corpus. For DeReKo (German Reference Corpus), possible fields include:
+\describe{
+\item{\strong{Text identification}:}{\code{textSigle}, \code{docSigle}, \code{corpusSigle} - hierarchical text identifiers}
+\item{\strong{Publication info}:}{\code{author}, \code{editor}, \code{title}, \code{docTitle}, \code{corpusTitle} - authorship and titles}
+\item{\strong{Temporal data}:}{\code{pubDate}, \code{creationDate} - when text was published/created}
+\item{\strong{Publication details}:}{\code{pubPlace}, \code{publisher}, \code{reference} - where/how published}
+\item{\strong{Text classification}:}{\code{textClass}, \code{textType}, \code{textTypeArt}, \code{textDomain}, \code{textColumn} - topic domain, genre, text type and column}
+\item{\strong{Adminstrative and technical info}:}{\code{corpusEditor}, \code{availability}, \code{language}, \code{foundries} - access rights and annotations}
+\item{\strong{Content data}:}{\code{snippet}, \code{tokens}, \code{tokenSource}, \code{externalLink} - actual text content, tokenization, and link to source text}
+\item{\strong{System data}:}{\code{indexCreationDate}, \code{indexLastModified} - corpus indexing info}
+}
+Use \code{c("textSigle", "pubDate", "author")} to retrieve multiple fields.
+Default fields provide basic text identification and publication metadata. The actual text content (\code{snippet} and \code{tokens}) are activated by default  if \code{metadataOnly} is set to \code{FALSE}.}
 
 \item{accessRewriteFatal}{abort if query or given vc had to be rewritten due to insufficient rights (not yet implemented).}
 
@@ -73,10 +86,17 @@
 \examples{
 \dontrun{
 
-# Fetch metadata of every query hit for "Ameisenplage" and show a summary
+# Fetch basic metadata for "Ameisenplage"
 KorAPConnection() \%>\%
   corpusQuery("Ameisenplage") \%>\%
   fetchAll()
+
+# Fetch specific metadata fields for bibliographic analysis
+query <- KorAPConnection() \%>\%
+  corpusQuery("Ameisenplage",
+              fields = c("textSigle", "author", "title", "pubDate", "pubPlace", "textType"))
+results <- fetchAll(query)
+results@collectedMatches
 }
 
 \dontrun{