Apply these guidelines when creating a bibliographic record for an individual or special issue of a serial, whether or not also creating a record for the serial as a whole.  Individual and special issues may be cataloged as monographs and related to the serial as a whole.

H1.  Bibliographic level

H2.  Body of the description

H3.  Relating individual issues to the serial as a whole

H4.  Relating special issues to the serial as a whole

H5.  Relating separately published monographs to the serial as a whole

H6.  Linking records for individual issues to the serial record

See also:

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books):  Contents