1.0C. Punctuation in Notes (Punctuation/Spacing)
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.
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