The present catalogue is the third version and supersedes the first one (1991-1994) published by Malaroda et al. (2000A&AS..144....1M, Cat. <III/204>). We have revised the issues of the journals listed in Table 1, for the period 1991-1998. It is not a complete list of all journals devoted to astronomical literature, but they are the most important ones and those available at our libraries. We prepared a plain ASCII file with the object identifications as provided by the authors. This file was transferred to the SIMBAD database, and, using the proper formats and filters, we have retrieved the identification for each object according to the rules of SIMBAD. In the same way we have also retrieved: the J2000 coordinates, the V magnitude, and the spectral classification for each object.