1.   Additional information expected.  When additional information is expected, precede or follow a hyphen with one space.

246 1# $iIssues for Oct. 1975- have title:$aCrime & delinquency

500 ## $aVol. 9- edited by G. Svehla has title ...

500 ## $aVols. -10 translated by ...

500 ## $aVols. for -1979 also have additional section called ...

2.   Ending mark of punctuation (5XX).  See also the section "g. Notes area (5XX)" under LC/CONSER Practice for Temporary/Uncertain Data.

For 5XX notes, an ending mark of punctuation is a period ( . ), quotation mark ( " ), question mark ( ? ), exclamation mark ( ! ), hyphen ( - ; used at the end of an open date, etc.), and (LC/CONSER practice) angle bracket ( > ).  End each note with a period or other mark of ending punctuation.

504 ## $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 310-325).

If a note ends in a quotation mark, input a period or other mark of ending punctuation inside the quotation mark.

500 ## $a"Circulated privately to her friends: not for sale."

Note that these guidelines relate to punctuation at the end of the data constituting a note itself.  Under certain circumstances, a field may actually end with MARC 21 subfields as follows:

a.   $5 (Institution to which field applies), in which case there is no punctuation at the end of the field.

500 ## $aLC set incomplete: v. 12 wanting.$5DLC

b.   $u (Uniform Resource Identifier), in which case the last character in the field is whatever is the last character of the URI.

530 ## $aElectronic version also available to purchase at:$uhttp://www.thelearner.com

but    530 ## $aAvailable online at the U.S. Census Bureau Web site (http://www.census.gov).

c.   $7 (Fixed-length data elements of reproduction) defined for use in field 533 ; when used, there is no punctuation at the end of the field.

533 ## $aMicrofilm.$m1962-1966.$bAnn Arbor, Mich. :$cUniversity Microfilms International,$d1988.$e1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.$7d19621965miuuua

EXCEPTIONS:

Incomplete 505 field, fields 510 , 535 , 536 , 583 , 586 .  These fields do not end in a period or other mark of ending punctuation unless it is part of the data, e.g., a period that is part of an abbreviation or a hyphen at the end of an open date, etc.

See also:

1.0C.  Punctuation/Spacing:  Table of Contents