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3.BASICBIBLIOGRAPHICINFORMATIONIndexersenterbibliographicinformationintonameddatafields,outlinedbelow.

ANoteonDiacriticsDiacriticscanbeenterednormallybyusingthekeyboardorkeystrokeofyourchoice.PleaserefertoAppendixCforresourcesandsuggestions.INDEXER(formerlyRES:ResponsibleIndexer)YourlastnameisautomaticallyenteredbasedonyourjournalassignmentsfoundintheMediafile. RECORD TYPE(formerlyTYP:DocumentType)Identifythedocumenttypeoftheitembeingindexed.Therearefourtypesofdocumentsinthebibliography.1. UseJOURNAL ARTICLE (JA)forajournalarticle:anarticle,essay,bibliography,orinterviewina

journal.AlsouseJAforaspecialissue,specialsection,ormonographissueofajournal.Fieldbibliographersshouldconsultanin-housestaffmemberiftheybelievethatamonographissuewarrantsabookrecordratherthanajournalrecord.

2. UseBOOK (BK)forabookmonograph:asingle,unifiedworkinbookform,byoneauthorormore.TreataneditionortranslationofaliteraryworkasaBOOK (BK),eveniftherequisitecriticalapparatusiswrittenbyanumberofcontributors.Treatacollectionofessaysbyoneauthorandareferencebook(suchasadictionary,literaryhistory,orencyclopedia)asaBOOK (BK).

3. UseBOOK (BK)forabookcollection:afestschriftorbookofarticles,containingindependentscholarshipbydiverseauthors.Providearecordforthebookasawhole(aheadrecord)forbookcollectionsthatcontainthreeormorearticlesthatfallwithinthescopeofthebibliography.(Note:IdentifyfestschriftenassuchinfacetCONTENT TYPEofthesubjectindexingform,givingthenameofthepersonhonored:CONTENT TYPE | T festschrift R for N Smith, John[thetagsN,R,T,Wstandfor“name,”“roleindicator,”“term,”and“work,”respectively].)

4. UseBOOK (BK)forabookinaseries:abookcollectionormonograph,festschrift,orbookofarticlesthatispublishedunderasingleseriestitle.

5. UseBOOK ARTICLE (BA)forbookarticle/chapter:anindependentlyauthoredarticle/essayinacollectionofarticles/essaysandachapterinabookmonograph.

SelecttheMediarecordforthedocumenttype(journal,series,orbook)fromeitherthealreadyenteredjournalissueorbookinyourToBeIndexedvieworJournalsTrackingReportviewonyourDashboardorfromwithinthetrackingforthejournal.TousetheSearchMediafunctiontofindmaterialassignedtoyou,selectyournameintheFieldBibliographersearchboxandpushenterorclick“Search.”ARTICLE/BOOK/CHAPTER TITLE (formerlyTIT:DocumentTitle)Recordthetitleandsubtitleoftheitem.Givethetitleofajournalarticleorbookarticle/chapterasitappearsatthebeginningofthearticle/chapter,notasitappearsinthetableofcontents.Recordthetitleofabookasitappearsonthetitlepage(notasitappearsonthefrontcoverorspine).Taketitlesofdocumentsinothermediafromtitlepageequivalents.Ifthereisnotitle,firstreevaluatewhetherthearticleshouldbeincludedunderourguidelines(see“DocumentScope”sectionabove,page5).Ifaspecialissue,specialsection,orotherdocumentinourscopedoesnothaveatitle,supplyabrieftitleinsquarebrackets.[On Editing]

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BilingualtitlesareincludedintheARTICLE TITLEfield,separatedbyaslash,asinthefollowingexample:ARTICLE TITLE | La verdad sobre el caso Mendoza/The Truth about the Mendoza Case

Fortitlesinnon-Romanscripts(e.g.,Arabic,Cyrillic,etc.)andnon-alphabeticlanguages(e.g.,Chinese,Japanese,Korean),followtheprocedureoutlinedbelowintheorderofpreference:1. Wheneverpossible,copyandpastethetitleintheoriginallanguage/script,asprintedinthe

publication.Orinputmanually,ifyoucan.

LANGUAGE | Japanese ARTICLE TITLE | ハムレット,復讐への道筋 : 深まる殺意の劇構造

2. Ifyouareunabletoinputintheoriginallanguage,transliteratethetitlefollowingtheLibraryof

Congressromanizationguidelines,availableathttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html.

LANGUAGE | Japanese ARTICLE TITLE | Hamuretto, fukushū e no michisuji: Fukamaru satsui no gekikōzō

3. Ifit'simpossibletoinputintheoriginallanguageortotransliterate,listthetranslatedtitleinsquare

brackets,ifsuchtranslationisgiveninthedocumentorinitsEnglishsummary,andentertheactuallanguageofthedocumentinLANGUAGEandinPUBLICATION NOTE:

LANGUAGE | Japanese ARTICLE TITLE | [The Way to the Final Revenge: The Deepening Murderous Intentions of Hamlet and Claudius] PUBLICATION NOTE: In Japanese

DividethetitleandsubtitleofEnglish-languageworkswithacolon,unlessthetitleendsinaquestionmarkorexclamationpoint.Separatetwoconsecutivesubtitleswithacolon.ARTICLE TITLE | Can Freshmen Write Fiction? A Plan for Incorporating Creative Writing into the Standard Composition Syllabus ARTICLE TITLE | Reel Men: Masculinity and Film Culture: The Role of Gender Stereotypes in Hollywood Cinema, 1950-1979 Donotunderlinethedocumenttitleorplaceitinquotationmarks.TitlesWithinTitlesWorktitleswithindocumenttitlesshouldbesetoffeitherwithitalicsorquotationmarks.Followtheconventionusedinthedocumentbeingindexed;ifaworktitleisnotsetoffinthedocumenttitle,supplyquotationmarksoritalics.(SeeAppendixCforinputtingitalics,etc.)

ARTICLE TITLE | Legal Fictions in Dickens’s Novel <i>Bleak House</i>

ARTICLE TITLE | The Structure of Wordsworth’s Poem “Tintern Abbey”

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TypographicalErrorsDonotfixtypos.Putcorrectionsinsquarebracketsfollowingtheerror.Repeattheentireword,spelledcorrectly.ARTICLE TITLE | What’s Worng [Wrong] with Postcolonialism?

CapitalizationForthecapitalizationoftitles,theMLAInternationalBibliographygenerallyimplementstheorthographicstandardofthedocumentlanguage.Insomecases,thishasmeantchoosingbetweenvariantstandards.InEnglish-languagetitlesandsubtitles,capitalizethefirstandlastwords,nouns,pronouns,verbs,adjectives,adverbs,subordinatingconjunctions(although,if,because,that,assoonas,when,where,while,unless).Donotcapitalizethefollowingpartsofspeechwhentheyfallinthemiddleofatitle:articles,prepositions,toininfinitives(asinHowtoPlayChess),andcoordinatingconjunctions(and,but,for,nor,or,so,yet).CapitalizequotationswithinEnglish-languagetitlesaccordingtothesesameconventions.ARTICLE TITLE | Going beyond Reason: An Interview with Ma Yuan

ARTICLE TITLE | Nostalgia and Beyond: Eleven Latvian Women Writers

ARTICLE TITLE | The Debate over Parody in Copyright Law

ARTICLE TITLE | Poetry’s Voice-Over

ARTICLE TITLE | Predictive Analysis and Over-the-Top Parsing

ARTICLE TITLE | Looking Again at Looking Ahead: Twentieth-Century Happenings

ARTICLE TITLE | “The Mighty Mother Cannot Bring Thee In”: E. Nesbit in the Wilderness

ARTICLE TITLE | The Declining Role of the In-House Dictionary Staff

ARTICLE TITLE | The Picturesque and Ready-to-Wear Femininity

ARTICLE TITLE | “I Learned Things Today That I Never Knew Before”: Oral History at the Kitchen Table

ARTICLE TITLE | Becoming a Conversationalist Despite (or Because of) Having an Older Sibling

Capitalizenon-English-languagedocumenttitlesaccordingtotheconventionsofthelanguageoutlinedbelow.

• AfrikaansandDutch:Thecontractedarticles'ninAfrikaansand'tand'ninDutcharenotcapitalized,evenwhentheyarethefirstwordsofatitleorsubtitle.Wheninfirstposition,capitalizethewordfollowingsuchanarticleandpropernounsincludinglanguagenames,asappropriate.ARTICLE TITLE | Afrikaans in die een-en-twintigste eeu: ‘n Verhandeling

ARTICLE TITLE | ‘t Leed niet lang aen, oft zy quaemen, anders oft zy en quaemen: Wat is beter?

• French:Capitalizethefirstwordandallpropernouns(includingnounsofnationality).Ifthefirstwordisanindefiniteordefinitearticle,capitalizeallwordsuptothefirstnoun.ARTICLE TITLE | L’Aventure de l’écriture dans le roman belge

ARTICLE TITLE | Etude du langage enfantin aux États-Unis

ARTICLE TITLE | Une Histoire longue de l’étude de la littérature

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ARTICLE TITLE | Les Vrais Amis existent aussi en France

ARTICLE TITLE | Du spirituel dans l’art verbal

• German:Capitalizethefirstwordandallnounsandotherpartsofspeechusedassubstantives.Capitalizeadjectivesderivedfrompersonalnames.Retainbutdonotsupplyβ.Retaindiacriticsovercapitalletters.ARTICLE TITLE | Utopische Elemente in Schillers ästhetischer Anthropologie

ARTICLE TITLE | Über die sprachlichen Probleme der hethitischen Toponymik

ARTICLE TITLE | Zu den diffusen Homologien der Sprache und der Marxschen Arbeitswertlehre

• Italian:Capitalizethefirstword,propernouns,andnounsforcenturiesandotherlargedivisionsoftime.ARTICLE TITLE | L’australitaliano: Un’aspirazione o una lingua?

ARTICLE TITLE | La piazza del Cinquecento come topos rappresentativo

• Latin:FollowthecapitalizationstyleofEnglish.ARTICLE TITLE | De Abditis Nonnullis ac Mirandis Morborum et Sanationum Causis

ARTICLE TITLE | Intrumentum Bibliographicum Neolatinum

• PortugueseandGalician:FollowthecapitalizationstyleofEnglish.ARTICLE TITLE | Anchieta e a Literatura Barroca em Latim

ARTICLE TITLE | A Produção de Sentido em uma Narrativa de Fernando Sabino

ARTICLE TITLE | Literatura e Sociedade en Galicia

• SpanishandCatalan:Capitalizethefirstwordandpropernouns.ARTICLE TITLE | Estrategias textuales de Borges y su literaturización en la narrativa latinoamericana

ARTICLE TITLE | El sistema teatral uruguayo de la última década: ¿Un cambio de paradigma?

ARTICLE TITLE | Última narrativa chilena: La escritura del desencanto

ARTICLE TITLE | La llengua catalana al principat de Catalunya en el passat

• Turkish:FollowthecapitalizationstyleofEnglish.Retaindiacriticsovercapitalletters.ARTICLE TITLE | Cümle Tahlilinin Önemi ve Metot

ARTICLE TITLE | Eşber Hakkında Yeni Bir Araştırma

• Otherlanguages:Inallotherlanguages,includingthosetransliteratedfromnon-Romanalphabets,capitalizethefirstwordintitlesandsubtitles,propernouns,andanyotherwordsnormallycapitalizedinthatlanguage.Keepdiacriticsovercapitalletters.ARTICLE TITLE | Frazeologizmy v trudakh V. I. Lenina

ARTICLE TITLE | Bibliohrafiia ukrainiky australiany

ARTICLE TITLE | Soupis prací Stanislava Žaži od roku 1990

ARTICLE TITLE | Ha-teoriah ha-sifrutit shel Stanley Fish

ARTICLE TITLE | Homonimoj en Esperanto konsiderataj nomenclature

ARTICLE TITLE | Furansugogaku to denshi-kopasu

ARTICLE TITLE | Finske slektsnavn i Sør-Varanger

ARTICLE TITLE | Yan mo +Ma ding yi deng= de yi shi xing tai mei xue

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PAGING (formerlyEXT:PaginationofaJournalArticle)Includealldigitsinpageranges.PAGING | 2-7 PAGING | 8-35 PAGING | 155-193 PAGING | 1155-1193 PAGING | 1194-1215 PAGING | 1992-2013Ifthearticlecontinuesafterskippingpages,separatethetwospanswithacomma.Includeadditionalpaginationforasummaryseparatedfromthearticle/chapter.PAGING | 8-35, 78-89 PAGING | 3, 111-124 PAGING | 155-217, 298

Whenindexingelectronicjournalarticlesthatdonotincludepagenumbers,recordthenumberofparagraphs,words,orevenpagesinthePAGINGfieldifnotedinthejournal.PAGING | 63 paragraphs PAGING | 6,321 words PAGING | 12 pages

Ifnoadditionalinformationexists,type“[no pagination]”(withsquarebrackets)inthePAGINGfield.Forthepaginationofabidirectionaldocumentwithseparatesetsofpagination,enterthepagerangefollowedby“(left)”or“(right)”dependingonthedirectionthatthepagesareturned.Forexample,ifyouareturningthepagefromrighttoleftwiththebindingontheleftside,enterthepagerangefollowedby“(left)”asintheexamplebelow.PAGING | 1-10 (left)

Ifyouareturningthepagefromlefttorightwiththebindingontherightside,enterthepagerangefollowedby“(right)”asintheexamplebelow.PAGING | 1-15 (right)

Add“(left)”or“(right)”toPAGINGonlywhenthebidirectionaldocumentincludestwosetsofpagination,onegoingfromtheleftandtheotherfromtheright.Forbidirectionaldocumentsthatdonotincludeseparatepagination,donotenter“(left)”or“(right)”inPAGINGbutdoincludethefullfront-to-backpagerange.

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PAGING (formerlyCPP:PaginationofaBookArticle)Recordthecompletepaginationspanofthebookarticle/chapter,includinganysupplementarymaterial(suchassummaries).PAGING | 2-7 PAGING | 8-35 PAGING | 110-118 PAGING | 2, 36-99

Forpaginationofarticles/chaptersinamultivolumecollection(publishedasaunit)wherethenumberingofpagesisnotconsecutivethroughallvolumes(i.e.,thesamepagerangeisusedineachvolume),indicatethevolumeincapitalRomannumeralsfollowedbyacolon,aspace,andthepagerangeofthearticle/chapter.PAGING | I: 20-36 PAGING | II: 16-25

AUTHORS(formerlyAU:DocumentAuthor[s])Identifytheauthor(s)ifknownintheAUTHORSsectionoftheform.Iftheauthorisunknown,leavethesectionblankandputausefulexplanatorynoteintheINTERNAL NOTEfacet(internalusefield).Donotput“noauthor”inAUTHORS.Ifanarticle/chapterorbookisactuallysigned“anonymous,”putthisterminAUTHORS/LAST NAMEwithoutbrackets,withausefulnoteinINTERNAL NOTE.Listallauthors,regardlessofnumber.Usethe+ADD AUTHORbuttontoaddmultipleauthors.

Recordauthors’namesastheyappearatthebeginningorendofanarticle/chapter,onthetitlepageofabook,andinanalogousplacesinothermedia.Usethisorderfornameelements:Lastname(inLAST

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NAMEtextbox),givenname(s)and/orinitials,followedafteracommaby“Jr./Sr./III”(inFIRST NAME textbox).LAST NAME | Fryer

FIRST NAME | John C., Jr.

Expandincompletenamesonlyiftheinformationisavailableelsewhereinthedocument(asinthetableofcontents),usingbracketsfortheexpansion.LAST NAME | Holland

FIRST NAME | E[ugene] W.

LAST NAME | M[alcolm]

FIRST NAME | M. T.

CorporateauthorsshouldalsobelistedinLAST NAME.Acorporateauthorisanorganizationorgroupofpersonsidentifiedbyaparticularnamethatactsasanentity:e.g.,associations,governmentagencies,nonprofitorganizations,religiousbodies,conferences,andcommittees.Corporateauthorsareusedforbooksandjournalarticles.LAST NAME | Medieval Studies Association

LAST NAME | MLA Committee on Professional Employment

LAST NAME | Società Dantesca Italiana

NotethatinArabic,lastnamesthatstartwith“Al-”shouldbetreatedaccordingtothefollowingrules:1)Whenthe“Al”isattachedtothelastnamewithouthyphenation,keepitasis,includingitinthelast-nameposition.LAST NAME | Alsharif FIRST NAME | Hamid2)Whenthe“Al-”ishyphenatedordetached,moveittothefirst-nameposition.LAST NAME | Sharif FIRST NAME | Hamid Al-AUTHOR’S ROLE(formerlyincludedinAU)AlsoincludeintheAUTHORSsectionanyeditors,compilers,translators,andcontributorsofcriticalapparatussuchasintrod.,preface,foreword,bibliography,andafterword,identifyingtheirrolesintheAUTHOR’S ROLEtextbox.Includeauthorrolesonlyifelementsareexplicitlyattributedtoanindividual(e.g.,donotattributeanunsignedintroductiontotheeditor).UsetheEnglishequivalentiftheroleisgiveninanotherlanguage.TheonlytwoabbreviationsallowedinAUTHOR’S ROLEare“ed.”and“introd.”ARTICLE TITLE | Death and Transfiguration in the German Novel

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AUTHORS LAST NAME | Dasenstein FIRST NAME | Greta von LAST NAME | Schmidt FIRST NAME | Elsa AUTHOR’S ROLE | ed. and introd. LAST NAME | Von Stengel FIRST NAME | Jeff AUTHOR’S ROLE | translator ARTICLE TITLE | The Divine Comedy AUTHORS LAST NAME | James FIRST NAME | Clive AUTHOR’S ROLE | translator and introd. LAST NAME | Looney FIRST NAME | Dennis AUTHOR’S ROLE | note PUBLICATION NOTE (formerlyGLO:GlossField)UsethePUBLICATION NOTEfieldtoprovidesupplementaryinformationaboutthedocumentbeingcited.ThePUBLICATION NOTEfacetisusedtoprovidehelpfulnotesfortheuser.“Italiansummary,”“Seealso,”“Revisionof,”“Continuationof,”and“Replyto”areappropriatenotationsinPUBLICATION NOTE.“Reviseded.,”“Includesfilmography,”“Includespreviouslyunpublishedpoems,”and“OnCD-ROM”allprovideusefulinformationthatwillfitnowhereelseontheform.Useonlytheabbreviations“ed.”and“introd.”inPUBLICATION NOTE;spelloutallotherterms.Forapop-upmenuofPUBLICATION NOTE choices,clickontheicontotherightofthefieldtitle,enterthenecessaryinformation,andclick“Save”topopulatethePUBLICATION NOTEfield.

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DonotusethePUBLICATION NOTEfieldtoincludethenamesofcontributorstothedocument.SuchnamesshouldbeenteredintheAUTHORSsection(seeabove,page12).SeeAppendixAforsomecommonnotesinPUBLICATION NOTE.LANGUAGE (formerlyLAN:DocumentLanguage)Thisisamandatorytype-aheadfield.Documentlanguageinformationenablesuserstoretrievematerialbyspecifiedlanguage.Activateautosuggestbytypinginthefieldtextbox.Enterthelanguage(s)inwhichthedocumentiswritten.Notethatonlytheadjectiveisused,incontrasttotheuseofalanguageterminindexing(i.e.,“Spanish”asdocumentlanguageinLANGUAGE,but“Spanishlanguage”asterminindexing).Therearenorestrictionswithregardtothelanguageofdocumentslistedinthebibliography.Userscantypeinanylanguage,evenifitisnotinthetype-ahead,andhittheenterkeytocreateatoken.Languagesalwaysbeginwithacapitalletter.Abookcollectionorspecialissueofajournalmaycontainarticlesindifferentlanguages.Whencreatingthecitationforabookcollectionorspecialissueasawhole(i.e.,the“headrecord”citation),giveallthelanguagesinwhichthecomponentarticlesarewritten.IfthelanguageofthedocumenttitlediffersfromthelanguagelistedinLANGUAGE,notethedocumentlanguageinthePUBLICATION NOTEfieldaswellasinLANGUAGE:LANGUAGE | Spanish ARTICLE TITLE | A Survey of the Spanish American Novel PUBLICATION NOTE | In Spanish. Ifthedocumentisabilingualeditionofaprimarywork,indicate“bilingualed.”inthePUBLICATION NOTEfieldandincludebothlanguagesintheLANGUAGE field.

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JOURNALARTICLEPUBLICATIONINFORMATIONJournalInformationUsersshouldselectanexistingjournaltitlefromthecurrentlistofjournalsfoundintheMediasectionofthedatabase.YoucansearchforjournalsusingtheDashboardviewstitledToBeIndexedorJournalsTrackingReport,whichwilldisplayyourcurrentlistofassignedjournals.YoucanalsosearchwithintheMediasectionofthedatabasebyjournaltitleorISSN/EISSN.YoucanaccessthejournalMedialistingandtrackinginformationfromthesearchresults.FieldBibliographersarestronglyadvisedtonotaddnewjournalentries,butifthereisnocurrentjournalMediarecordfortheissueyouaretryingtoindex,clickonthe“Media”iconinthetoptoolbar,select“AddMedia/Journal,”andfollowtheguidelinesbelowtocreateanewjournalMediaentry.

JOURNAL NAME(formerlyJNL:JournalName)Thisisamandatoryfield.Pleaseincludethefulljournaltitle,excludingthesubtitlewhichisenteredinafollowingfield.Ifatitleappearsinmultiplelanguages,pleaseusethefulltitleasitappearsonthecover,separatingthetitleswithaforwardslash.

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JOURNAL NAME | Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte/Cahier d’Histoire des Littératures Romanes

SOURCE SUBTITLE Includeeverythingaftertheinitialcoloninthesubtitlefield.Separatemultiplelanguageswithforwardslashasabove.

ISSN Includeonlytheeight-digitInternationalStandardSerialNumberappearingonthejournalcoverorinthefrontmatter.Formatisalways####-####.Anerrormessagewillbedisplayediftheformatorcheckdigitprocessisincorrect.ErrorsdooccurwithpublishersusingthewrongISSNorincorrectformat.IncludetheincorrectISSNintheINTERNAL NOTEfield,andthenecessarycorrectionswillbemadewhenthenewrecordisreviewed.

EISSN PleasefollowthesameconventionsasaregularISSN.PublisherswillusedifferentmarkerstodesignateanEISSN(“E-ISSN”,“ElectronicISSN”,anumberwith“electronic”afterit,etc.)IfyouhaveanyquestionifalistednumberthatlookslikeanISSNshouldappearintheISSNorEISSNfields,alwaysusetheISSNfield.PUBLISHER NAME (formerlyPUB:Publisher)Thisisamandatorytype-aheadfield.Recordthepublisherthatisgivenonthetitlepageorversoofthetitlepage.Usethetype-aheadfunctioninthePUBLISHER NAME textboxtofindanexistingpublisherfromthepossibleselectionsthatappearwhenyoubegintyping.Intherarecaseswherethetype-aheadfunctiondoesnotincludeaparticularpublishername,typeinthemissingpublishernameandhitenter.Thiswillcreateacandidatepublisherthatwillbereviewedbyadministrativestaffatalatertime.Inextremecaseswherethepublishercannotbefoundinthedocument,typeandselect“unknown,”andanin-houseadministratorwillconductfurtherresearch.Seefullpublisherdescriptiononpage28below. INDEXER Thisisamandatoryfield,containingadrop-downlistofallcurrentin-houseindexers.Fieldbibliographersshouldfindandselecttheirassignedin-househandler.Ifyouareunsurewhoyourin-househandleris,[email protected].

FIELD BIBLIOGRAPHER Selectyourlastnamefromthedrop-downlist.Thereisnoneedforfieldbibliographerstofilloutanyoftheotherinformationontheformasin-housestaffwillbeginresearchonthenewjournalentryandcontacttheeditorsforanymissinginformationifnecessary.Onceyouhavecompletedtheabove-mentionedfields,clickthe“CreateJournalMedia”buttonatthebottomofthepage.Thiswillpromptapop-upthatsays,“Mediarecordhasbeensuccessfullycreated.Doyouwanttocreatetrackinginformationforthisrecord?”Click“Now”tocreatethetrackingforthisrecord(seeinstructionsbelow)orchoose“Later”tocreatethetrackingatalatertime.

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CREATENEWTRACKINGRECORD(JOURNAL):BIBLIOGRAPHICINFORMATIONFIELDSPUBLICATION DATE(formerlyDAT:DateofPublication)Givethedatethatappearsonthetitlepageorcover.Ifthecopyrightdateoractualdateofpublicationdiffersfromthenominaldate,giveonlythenominaldate.Recorddateelementsinbroad-to-narroworder.Givetheyearfirst,followedbytheseasonorthemonthwhenthereisone.Usethefollowingabbreviationsforthemonths:Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,Aug,Sept,Oct,Nov,Dec(allwithoutaperiod).Usefull

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namesforMay,June,July.GivetheyearinArabicnumerals.GivethemonthorseasoninEnglish.Usehyphenstoseparatespansofyears,months,orseasons.PUBLICATION DATE | 1992 Jan PUBLICATION DATE | 2002 Sept-Oct PUBLICATION DATE | 1994 Dec-1995 Jan PUBLICATION DATE | 1977 Fall PUBLICATION DATE | 1990 Spring-Summer PUBLICATION DATE | 2004 Winter-2005 Spring PUBLICATION DATE | 2010 Feb 17

VOLUME(formerlyVOL:VolumeNumber)GivethevolumenumberinArabicnumerals.Ifmultiplevolumenumbersarelisted,separatethevolumenumberswithahyphen.VOLUME | 33 VOLUME | 10-11 VOLUME | 125-128

Treatauniqueperiodicalnumberasavolumenumber(i.e.,ifadocumentdoesnothaveavolumenumber,butdoeshaveanissuenumber,puttheissuenumberinVOLUME).ISSUE (formerlyISS:IssueNumber)GivetheissuenumberinArabicnumerals.Ifamultipleissue,separatetheissuenumberswithahyphen.Ifthereisacumulativeissuenumber,includeitinsquarebracketsaftertheissuenumber.ISSUE | 1 ISSUE | 2 [58] ISSUE | 1-2 [49-50]FORMATSelecttheformatofthejournalissueyouareindexing.Thereisnoneedtoselecttheotheravailableformatsforthejournal(e.g.,aprintversionifyouareindexingfromane-journalversion).Optionsare“Print,”“PDF,”“Website,”“e-Book,”“e-Journal,”“Abstract,”and“Offprint.”NOTE FOR TRACKING INFO Textfieldforincludingnotesforin-housereview.IncludeURLsofe-journalissues,e-books,orPDFshereaswellasotherbibliographicinformationthatcannotbeincludedelsewhere.SinceURLsincludedherearehyperlinkedforeasyclick-through,besuretoalwayscheckthisfieldforlinkstofulltext.Toreveal

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thisfieldinthebibliographicviewofarecord,clickinthe“Tracking”areanearthetopoftheform.Thiswillexpandthesectiontorevealmoredatafields,includingNOTE FOR TRACKING INFO.LOCATIONSelectthecurrentlocationofthejournalissueyouareindexing.Allfieldbibliographersshouldselect“FieldWork”here.Otherpossibilitiesare“In-House,”“Library,”“LocalDrive,”“Online,”and“Needed.” CREATE SHELL RECORD Thisboxischeckedbydefault.Ifcheckeditwillcreateabibliographicshellrecordbasedonthejournalissueinformationyouhaveenteredinthetracking.ThefollowingformatswillwritetotheARTICLE TITLEfieldoftheautomaticallygeneratedshellrecordifthisboxischecked:FORMAT | Print = “issue available in print” FORMAT | PDF = “issue available as pdf” FORMAT | E-Journal = “issue available online” FORMAT | Abstract = “abstracts available online” Ifyouuncheckthisboxandclickthe“Create”buttonnoshellwillbecreated(bibliographicrecordscanstillbecreatedfromtheDashboardseriesviewaswellasthetrackingforthejournal).IndexingaSpecialIssueorSpecialSectionofaJournalWhenanissueorsectionofajournalisdevotedtoaspecifictopic,createaseparaterecord(“headrecord”)forthatissueorsection.Aspecialissueusuallyhasbothanamededitorandatitlethatisdifferentfromthejournalname.PutthetitleofthespecialissueinARTICLE TITLEandthenameoftheeditor(s)intheAUTHORSsection.Donotindextheeditor’sintroductionasaseparatearticle;rather,indicatethepresenceoftheintroductioninAUTHOR’S ROLE(seeexamplebelow).Addtheterm“[Special Issue]”or“[Special Section]”(insquarebrackets)attheendofthetitlefieldforrecordsdescribingspecialissuesofjournalsthatdonotalreadyincludethatphraseinthetitle.Thesamerulesapplyforspecialsectionswithinanissue.Indicatethecompletepaginationoftheentirespecialissue/sectioninPAGING.Exampleofspecialissueheadrecord:ARTICLE TITLE | Hemingway in Spain [Special Issue] AUTHORS LAST NAME | Smith FIRST NAME | John AUTHOR’S ROLE | ed. and introd. LAST NAME | Jones FIRST NAME | Joan AUTHOR’S ROLE | ed. and introd. PAGING | 3-212 Sameasaboveforspecialsectionheadrecords,withPAGINGrepresentingpaginationofspecialsectiononly.Remember:Ifthespecialissue/sectiontitlealreadycontainsthewords“specialissue/section”(e.g.,“SpecialIssueonHemingwayinSpain”),leavethetitleasisanddonotrepeattheterminsquarebrackets.

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Sometimesspecialissues/sectionsarepublishedwithoutanydiscernibletitle.Insuchcasesindexersshouldfeelfreetoaddatitleinsquarebracketsthatreflectsthejournal’sspecialcontent(seepages7–8).Insuchcasestheterm“specialissue/section”shouldappearattheendoftheARTICLE TITLEfieldprecededbyacolon.ARTICLE TITLE | [Ernest Hemingway: Special Issue] Toalertscholarstothisinformationinallrelatedarticles,add“In special [issue/section]: [title]”tothePUBLICATION NOTEfieldforindividualarticlesintheparticularissue.ARTICLE TITLE | Hemingway Runs with the Bulls AUTHORS LAST NAME | Hurt FIRST NAME | Jim PUBLICATION NOTE | In special issue: “Hemingway in Spain.” PAGING/ 6-20 InthePUBLICATION NOTEfield,useregularquotationmarkstodenotethespecialissuetitle:PUBLICATION NOTE | In special issue: “William Shakespeare.” If“specialissue”isalreadypartofthetitlefield,donotrepeat“specialissue”inPUBLICATION NOTEprecedingtitle:PUBLICATION NOTE | In: “Special Issue on Technology and Learning Pronunciation.”

Ifnotitleforthespecialissuehasbeenprovidedandyouaddedone,donotincludequotationmarksinPUBLICATION NOTE: PUBLICATION NOTE | In special issue on Ralph Waldo Emerson.

AdditionalinformationinPUBLICATION NOTE,suchaslanguagesummaries,followsthespecialissuedata,separatedwithaperiodplacedinsidethequotationmarks: PUBLICATION NOTE | In special issue: “Faulkner and Hemingway.” English summary.

Notethataperiodisrequiredattheendofthefield,asintheexamplesabove.

Usesemicolonstoseparateadditionalinformationfollowingspecialissue/sectiondatainPUBLICATION NOTE,suchaslanguagesummariesand/orotherinformationaboutthedocumentbeingindexed.PUBLICATION NOTE | In special issue: “Faulkner and Hemingway.” English summary; French summary; includes illustrations.Pleasenotethat“summary”appearslowercaseinPUBLICATION NOTE.Alsonotethat“specialissue”and“specialsection”shouldappearlowercaseinPUBLICATION NOTE(“Inspecialissue/section”)butuppercaseintheARTICLE TITLEfieldofthespecialissue/sectionheadrecord(e.g.,“[SpecialIssue]”).Whencreatingtheheadrecordforspecialissues/sectionsofelectronicjournalsthatcontainseparatelypaginatedarticlesinPDFformat,add“[separate pagination]”inthePAGINGfieldand

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“Individuallypaginatedarticles”inPUBLICATION NOTE.DonotaddupthepagesfortheheadsheetPAGING.ARTICLE TITLE | Little Magazines in America [Special Issue] AUTHORS LAST NAME | Hutchinson FIRST NAME | Jorge AUTHOR’S ROLE | introd. PUBLICATION NOTE | Individually paginated articles. PAGING/ [separate pagination] Ifanarticleappearswithinaspecialsectioninaspecialissue,includebothinPUBLICATION NOTE:PUBLICATION NOTE | In special issue: “The Ranks of War.” In special section: “Arts and Letters.”

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SERIESPUBLICATIONINFORMATIONSeriesInformationUsersshouldselectanexistingbookseriestitlefromthecurrentlistofseriesfoundintheMediasectionofthedatabase.YoucansearchforseriesusingtheDashboardviewstitledToBeIndexedorSeriesTrackingReportwhichwilldisplayyourcurrentlistofassignedseries.YoucanalsosearchwithintheMediasectionofthedatabasebyseriestitleorISSN/EISSN.YoucanaccesstheseriesMedialistingandtrackinginformationfromthesearchresults.FieldBibliographersarestronglyadvisedtonotaddnewseriesentries,butifthereisnocurrentseriesMediarecordfortheseriesbookyouaretryingtoindex,clickontheMediaiconinthetoptoolbar,select“AddMedia/Series,”andfollowtheguidelinesbelowtocreateanewseriesMediaentry.

SERIES NAME(formerlySER:SeriesNameorAcronym)Thisisamandatoryfield.Pleaseincludethefullseriestitle,excludingthesubtitlewhichisenteredinafollowingfield.Seriestitlesarefoundonthecoverofabook,theinitialtitlepages,ortheLibraryof

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CongressCataloging-in-PublicationDatainthefrontmatter.Ifaseriestitleappearsinmultiplelanguages,pleaseusethefulltitleasitappearsonthecover,separatingthetitleswithaforwardslash.SERIES NAME | Europäische Hochschulschriften/Publications Universitaire Européennes/European University Studies

SOURCE SUBTITLEIncludeeverythingaftertheinitialcolonintheSOURCE SUBTITLEfield.Separatemultiplelanguageswithforwardslashasabove.

ISSNBookseriessometimesincludeISSNs,butnotalways.Includeonlytheeight-digitInternationalStandardSerialNumberincludedontheseriescoverorfrontmatter.Formatisalways####-####.Anerrormessagewillbedisplayediftheformatorcheckdigitprocessisincorrect.ErrorsdooccurwithpublishersusingthewrongISSNorincorrectformat.IncludetheincorrectISSNintheINTERNAL NOTEfield,andthenecessarycorrectionswillbemadewhenthenewrecordisreviewed.

EISSNBookseriessometimesincludeEISSNs.PleasefollowthesameconventionsasaregularISSN.PublisherswillusedifferentmarkerstodesignateanEISSN(“E-ISSN,”“ElectronicISSN,”anumberwith“electronic”afterit,etc.).IfyouhaveanyquestionwhetheralistednumberthatlookslikeanISSNshouldappearintheISSNorEISSNfieldsalwaysusetheISSNfield.

PUBLISHER NAME(formerlyPUB:Publisher)Thisisamandatorytype-aheadfield.Recordthepublisherthatisgivenonthetitlepageorversoofthetitlepage.Usethetype-aheadfunctioninthePUBLISHERNAMEtextboxtofindanexistingpublisherfromthepossibleselectionsthatappearwhenyoubegintyping.Intherarecaseswherethetype-aheadfunctiondoesnotincludeaparticularpublishername,typeinthemissingpublishernameandhitenter.Thiswillcreateacandidatepublisherthatwillbereviewedbyadministrativestaffatalatertime.Inextremecaseswherethepublishercannotbefoundinthedocument,typeandselect“unknown,”andanin-houseadministratorwillconductfurtherresearch.

Seefullpublisherdescriptiononpage29below.

INDEXERThisisamandatoryfield,containingadrop-downlistofallcurrentin-houseindexers.Fieldbibliographersshouldfindandselecttheirassignedin-househandler.Ifyouareunsurewhoyourin-househandleris,[email protected].

FIELD BIBLIOGRAPHERSelectyourlastnamefromthedrop-downlist.Thereisnoneedforfieldbibliographerstofilloutanyoftheotherinformationontheformasin-housestaffwillbeginresearchonthenewseriesentryandcontacttheeditorsforanymissinginformationifnecessary.

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Onceyouhavecompletedtheabove-mentionedfields,clickthe“CreateSeriesMedia”buttonatthebottomofthepage.Thiswillpromptapop-upthatsays,“Mediarecordhasbeensuccessfullycreated.Doyouwanttocreatetrackinginformationforthisrecord?”Click“Now”tocreatethetrackingforthisrecord(seeinstructionsbelow)orchoose“Later”tocreatethetrackingatalatertime.

CREATENEWTRACKINGRECORD(SERIES):BIBLIOGRAPHICINFORMATIONFIELDSPUBLICATION DATE(formerlyYR:DateofPublication)Givethedatethatappearsinthefrontmatterofthebook.Thisisalwaysafour-digityearforseriesbooks.SERIES NUMBER(formerlySNO:SeriesNumber)GivethevolumenumberinArabicnumerals.Ifmultiplevolumenumberslisted,separatethevolumenumberswithahyphen.SERIES NUMBER | 33 SERIES NUMBER | 10-11 SERIES NUMBER | 125-128

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BOOK TITLEFollowthetitleformatshownonpage8.ISBN NUMBER(formerlyIBN:InternationalStandardBookNumber)A13-digitformatisusedfortheInternationalStandardBookNumber(ISBN).Thisformatwasrequiredofallpublishersafter1January2007.Manybookpublishersareusingboth10-digitand13-digitformatsontheirbooks.TheMLAIBswitchedtothe13-digitformatstartingwithour2006bibliography.Therefore,allindexersarerequestedtoinputthe13-digitformatwheneverpossible.Ifitisnotavailable,indexersshouldinputtheolderformat,andwewillrecalculateitinto13digits.DonotseparatesegmentsoftheISBNwithhyphensorspaces;onlyasequenceof13digitsisneeded.ToentertheISBN,clickonthe“+AddISBN”button.UsetheArabicnumber(s)givenonthecopyrightpage,oftenfoundintheCIPdata(theLibraryofCongressCataloguing-in-Publicationdata).IncludeasmanyISBNsastherearelistedintheCIPdata.WhenincludingmultipleISBNs,besuretospecifytheformattowhicheachnumberappliesinthe“ISBNType”textbox.Clickthedrop-downarrowinthisfieldandalistofoptionswillappear(“pbk.,”“hbk.,”“pdf,”“e-book,”“print,”“NA”).ChoosetheappropriateformatforeachISBNentered.

IftherearemultipleISBNsfrommultiplepublishersinonebook,includethemallwiththeircorrespondingformats.AlwaysincludetheISBNofthebookyouareindexingfirst(i.e.,ifyouareindexingfromahardbackvolume,includethatISBNfirst,thenthepaperbackISBN).Iftheformatisunknownorinaformatunavailableonthedropdownmenu,pleaseuse“NA”astheformat.(Single ISBN Number/Type) ISBN NUMBER | 9780195180916 ISBN TYPE | pbk.

(Multiple ISBN Numbers/Types) ISBN NUMBER | 9780226451657 ISBN TYPE | pbk. ISBN NUMBER | 9780226451633 ISBN TYPE | hbk.

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FORMAT Selecttheformatofthebookyouareindexing.Thereisnoneedtoselecttheotheravailableformatsforthebook.Optionsare“Print,”“PDF,”“Website,”“e-Book,”“e-Journal,”“Abstract,”and“Offprint.”NOTE FOR TRACKING INFO Seedescriptiononpage19.LOCATION Selectthecurrentlocationofthebookyouareindexing.Allfieldbibliographersshouldselect“FieldWork”here.Otherpossibilitiesare“In-House,”“Library,”“LocalDrive,”“Online,”and“Needed.”CREATE SHELL RECORD Thisboxischeckedbydefault.Ifcheckeditwillcreateabibliographicshellrecordbasedonthebooktitleyouhaveenteredinthetracking.Ifyouuncheckthisboxandclickthe“Create”buttonnoshellwillbecreated(bibliographicrecordscanstillbecreatedfromtheDashboardseriesviewaswellasthetrackingforthebookseries).

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BOOKPUBLICATIONINFORMATIONIndexingaBookMonographorBookCollectionUsersshouldselectanexistingbooktitlefromthecurrentlistofbooksfoundintheMediasectionofthedatabase.YoucansearchforbooksusingtheDashboardviewtitledToBeIndexedwhichwilldisplayyourcurrentlistofassignedbooksunderthegreen“BK”tab.YoucanalsosearchbybooktitleorauthorwithintheSearchMediasectionofthedatabase(intopmenutoolbar,select“SearchMedia/Book”).YoucanaccessthebookMedialistingandtrackinginformationfromthesearchresults.IfthereisnocurrentbookMediarecordforthebookyouaretryingtoindex,clickonthe“Media”iconinthetoptoolbar,select“AddMedia/Book,”andfollowtheguidelinesbelowtocreateanewbookentry.

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BOOK TITLEThisisamandatoryfield.Pleasefollowtheguidelinesforenteringtitlesfoundonpage8.OPEN ACCESS? Isthecurrente-bookversionyouareindexingfromavailableinopen-accessformat?Choose“Yes”or“No”fromthedrop-downmenuorleaveas“Blank”(defaultsetting)ifyoudonotknow.INDEXERThisisamandatoryfield,containingadrop-downlistofallcurrentin-houseindexers.Fieldbibliographersshouldfindandselecttheirassignedin-househandler.Ifyouareunsurewhoyourin-househandleris,[email protected] BIBLIOGRAPHERSelectyourlastnamefromthedrop-downlist.PUBLISHER NAME (formerlyPUB:Publisher) Thisisamandatorytype-aheadfield.Recordthepublisherthatisgivenonthetitlepageorversoofthetitlepage.Usethetype-aheadfunctioninthePUBLISHER NAMEtextboxtofindanexistingpublisherfromthepossibleselectionsthatappearwhenyoubegintyping.Intherarecaseswherethetype-aheadfunctiondoesnotincludeaparticularpublishername,typeinthemissingpublishernameandhitenter.Thiswillcreateacandidatepublisherthatwillbereviewedbyadministrativestaffatalatertime.Inextremecaseswherethepublishercannotbefoundinthedocument,typeandselect“unknown,”andanin-houseadministratorwillconductfurtherresearch.Pleaseusetheformatsandguidelinesbelowwhenaddinganewpublisher.PUBLISHER NAME | Norton

PUBLISHER NAME | Little, Brown

PUBLISHER NAME | Peter Lang

PUBLISHER NAME | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

PUBLISHER NAME | Abrams

PUBLISHER NAME | Herbert Lang

Whencitingauniversitypress,usetheentirename. PUBLISHER NAME | Syracuse University Press

PUBLISHER NAME | University of Massachusetts Press

PUBLISHER NAME | University Press of America

PUBLISHER NAME | Presses Universitaires de Provence

Followthecapitalizationofthedocument(i.e.,donotstandardizeasintheJOURNAL NAMEandSERIES NAMEfields).

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Ifthepublisherisasmallerunitwithinalargerunit,recordtheinformationinthatorderandseparatewithacomma.Ifyoucannottellifoneunitisasubdivisionofanother,leavethemintheordertheyaregiveninthedocument.Usethetype-aheadfunctiontofindpublisherunitsthatalreadyexistinourdatabase.PUBLISHER NAME | Department of English, University of Virginia

PUBLISHER NAME | Adyar Library and Research Centre, Theosophical Society

Ifaworkispublishedsimultaneouslybytwodifferentpublishers,recordbothinPUBLISHER NAME.RecordeachplaceofpublicationinthePLACE OF PUBLICATIONfieldonthefollowingpage(“BibliographyDetails”).Hittheenterkeyaftertypingeachname/place,andyourresponseswillbetokenizedintomultipleentries.Ifthepublisherstatementindicatesthatthebookwaspublishedbyonepublisherfororinassociationwithanother,recordthatinformation.Usethefollowingformatsforworksthatarepublishedincollaborationwith,cooperationwith,associationwith,orforanotherpublisherororganization:PUBLISHER NAME | McGill-Queen’s UP, with J. R. Smallwood Centre for Newfoundland Studies

PUBLISHER NAME | U of New Mexico P, for Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Useacronymsorinitialsforpublishers’namesonlyperdocument.Providetheexpandedformofthenamewheneveritisgiven.Donotuseperiodsbetweencapitallettersinacronyms(e.g.,MITnotM.I.T.).Donotabbreviatewordswithinpublishers’names(e.g.,Assn.,Soc.,Fndtn.,Amer.).Incasesofdoubtorambiguity,recordthepublisherinformationexactlyasitisprintedanddonotomitwordsoruseabbreviations.

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PUBLISHER NAME | LINCOM Europa

PUBLISHER NAME | Modern Language Association of America

Ifnopublisherisprovidedanywhereinthebook,butyouknowthepublisherfromareferencesourcesuchasBooksinPrintortheLibraryofCongress,notethepublisherandyourreferencesourceintheINTERNAL NOTEfield.In-housestaffwillverifytheinformationandeditthePUBLISHER NAMEasappropriate.

INTERNAL NOTE | Published by LINCOM Europa per Books in Print

NOTEIncludeanyadditionalinformationhere.Thisfieldisnotpartoftherecordoutputandisusedandseenbyfieldbibliographersandin-houseeditorsonly.AVAILABLE IN PRINT? Isthebookyouareindexingfromavailableinprint?Choose“Yes”or“No”orleavethefieldblankifyouareunsure.AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY?Isthebookyouareindexingfromavailableinanelectronicformat?Choose“Yes”or“No”orleavethefieldblankifyouareunsure.METADATA RANKThedefaultsettingforthisfieldis“3-Books.”Thereisnoneedtochangeit.URLIncludetheURLoftheelectronicversionifthereisone.Ifyouanswered“Yes”totheOPEN ACCESS?fieldabove,pleaseincludetheURLifknown.AUTHORSFollowtheguidelinesforenteringdocumentauthornamesfoundonpage13.Onceyouhavecompletedthesefields,clickthe“Tracking”buttonatthebottomofthepage.Thiswilltakeyoutoascreenforcreatingthetrackingforthisbookrecord.

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CREATENEWTRACKINGRECORD(BOOK):BIBLIOGRAPHICINFORMATIONFIELDSPUBLICATION YEAR (formerlyYR:DateofPublication)Givethedateofpublicationasitappearsonthetitlepage,ontheversoofthetitlepage,orinthecolophon.Thisisalwaysonlyafourdigityearforbooks.Ifthereisnodateofpublicationonthetitlepagebutthereisacopyrightdate,usethecopyrightdate.NotethattheinformationintheCIPdataisnotpartofthedocument—itisacataloguerecordcreatedusuallybytheLibraryofCongress.IfneitherpublicationdatenorcopyrightdateisgivenbutthereisinformationonthedateintheCIPdata,usetheCIPdatainbrackets.Ifnodateofpublicationisprintedinthebook,butyouknowthedateofpublicationfromareferencesourcesuchasBooksinPrintortheLibraryofCongressorifnodateofpublicationisprintedinthebook,andnoauthoritativesourcegivesthedate,enter“[no date]”insquarebrackets.PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001

PUBLICATION YEAR | [1998]

PUBLICATION YEAR | [no date]

Ifthedateofpublication(orcopyrightdate,ifused)differsfromthedateofaparticularprintingordateofdistribution,usethedateofpublication.Ifitisconsideredsignificant(e.g.,arelativelylargenumberofyearsbetweenthecopyrightdateandtheprintingordistributiondate)addthedateofprintingordistributioninsquarebracketsafterthedateofpublication:PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 [3rd printing 1999]

ISBN NUMBER(formerlyIBN:InternationalStandardBookNumber)A13-digitformatisusedfortheInternationalStandardBookNumber(ISBN).Thisformatwasrequiredofallpublishersafter1January2007.Manybookpublishersareusingboth10-digitand13-digitformatsontheirbooks.TheMLAIBswitchedtothe13-digitformatstartingwithour2006bibliography.

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Therefore,allindexersarerequestedtoinputthe13-digitformatwheneverpossible.Ifitisnotavailable,indexersshouldinputtheolderformat,andwewillrecalculateitinto13digits.DonotseparatesegmentsoftheISBNwithhyphensorspaces;onlyasequenceof13digitsisneeded.ToentertheISBN,clickonthe“+AddISBN”button.UsetheArabicnumber(s)givenonthecopyrightpage,oftenfoundintheCIPdata(LibraryofCongressCataloguing-in-Publicationdata).IncludeasmanyISBNsastherearelistedintheCIPdata.WhenincludingmultipleISBNs,besuretospecifytheformattowhicheachnumberappliesinthe“ISBNType”textbox.Ifyoudoubleclickinthisfield,alistofoptionswillappear(“pbk.,”“hbk.,”“pdf,”“e-book,”“print,”“NA”).ChoosetheappropriateformatforeachISBNentered.

IftherearemultipleISBNsfrommultiplepublishersinonebook,includethemallwiththeircorrespondingformats.AlwaysincludetheISBNofthebookyouareindexingfirst(i.e.,ifyouareindexingfromahardbackvolume,includethatISBNfirst,thenthepaperbackISBN).Iftheformatisunknownorunavailableinthedrop-downmenu,pleaseselect“NA.”(Single ISBN Number/Type) ISBN NUMBER | 9780195180916 ISBN TYPE | pbk. (Multiple ISBN Numbers/Types) ISBN NUMBER | 9780226451657 ISBN TYPE | pbk. ISBN NUMBER | 9780226451633 ISBN TYPE | hbk.

NOTE FOR TRACKING INFO Seedescriptiononpage19.

FORMAT Selecttheformatofthebookyouareindexing.Thereisnoneedtoselecttheotheravailableformatsfor

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thebook.Optionsare“Print,”“PDF,”“Website,”“e-Book,”“e-Journal,”“Abstract,”and“Offprint.”LOCATION Selectthecurrentlocationofthebookyouareindexing.Allfieldbibliographersshouldselect“FieldWork”here.Otherpossibilitiesare“In-House,”“Library,”“LocalDrive,”“Online,”and“Needed.”

Clickthe“Bibliography”buttonatthebottomofthepagetocompletetrackingandmovetothenextscreen,whereyouwillbepromptedtoentertheinformationbelow.

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TOC (formerlyTOC:TableofContents)OnlythetableofcontentsofbookmonographsshouldbeenteredintotheTOCfield.Thisfieldoffersourdatabaseusersadditionalcontentinformationandkeywordaccesspoints.TheformatoftheTOC(outlinedbelow)followstheguidelinesofAACRAnglo-AmericanCataloguingRules.Donotincludetableofcontentsinformationforanthologiesandeditionsofprimarymaterial(e.g.,fiction,poetry)orfordictionaries,encyclopedias,bibliographies,indexes,andsimilarreferenceworks.IfyouareindexingabookmonographthatdoesnotneedtheTOCfieldfilledinaccordingtotheseguidelines,pleasetypeNoTOCintheINTERNAL NOTEfield.TOCFormattingGuidelinesIntheTOCfield,includechaptertitlesandsectionorparttitles.Donotincludepartorsectioninformationifthepartsorsectionsarenottitled.Ifabookmonograph’schaptersarenumberedbutnottitled,includeanotationinsquarebracketsindicatingthenumberofchaptersinthebook,asinthefollowingexample:TOC | [7 untitled chapters]Includeintroductions,prefaces,afterwords,bibliographies,appendixes,andothercriticalapparatusonlyiftheyhaveatitle(inadditionto"Introduction,"etc.).Donotincludesub-chapterdivisiontitles(forexample,donotlist1.1topic,1.2nexttopic,etc.withinchapter1).Donotincludechapternumbers.Chaptertitleinformationshouldbeseparatedbyslashes(withaspaceoneithersideoftheslash).Donotincludepagenumbers.Include"part"or"section"informationtodistinguishparttitlesfromchaptertitles.Sectionorparttitlesshouldbefollowedbyaslash,asinthefollowingexample:TOC | Part I. Backgrounds and Sources / The Early Years / Cultural Encounters / The Developing WriterIfasectionorpartnumberispresentedineitherArabicorRoman,recordperdocument.Ifasectionorpartnumberisspelledout(e.g.,“PartThree”),changetoArabicnumerals.Ifasectionorparttitleisnumberedbutdoesnotincludetheword“section,”“part,”orequivalent,addtheword“Part”(ortheforeignlanguageequivalent)intheTOCfieldbeforethepartnumber.Sectionandpartnumbersshouldbefollowedbyaperiod.Donotputquotationmarksaroundchapterorparttitles.Typequotationmarksandotherpunctuationwithintitlesperdocument.Donotinputaperiodattheendofchapter,part,orsectiontitles.Includediacritics,italics,andothercodingperdocument.Capitalizeallchapter,section,andparttitlesaccordingtotherulesgoverningcapitalizationintheARTICLE/BOOK/CHAPTER TITLEfield(seepage8).ThefollowingaresomeexamplesofproperlyformattedTOCs:TOC | Introduction: The Power of Stories / Part I. Hannah Arendt and the Revaluing of Storytelling / Political Narration after the Poststructuralist Critique / The Public Role of Storytelling / Toward a Critical Theory of Stories / Part II. Counter-Narratives and Cross-Border Politics / The Problem of Experience / Storytelling and Global Politics / Stories and Standpoint Theory: Toward a More Responsible and Defensible Thinking from Others’ Lives

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TOC | Part 1. Prologue / “The Poet and His World”: An Overview / Rude Awakening: Autumn 1807 / Part 2. Formative Years / Childhood 1758-1775 / Student Days and Tutoring 1775-1785 / Part 3. Maturity and Achievement / Schoolmaster in Wolgast 1785-1792 / Altenkirchen 1792-1804: The Classical Years / Part 4. Upheaval and Political Engagement / Altenkirchen 1805-1808: Paradise Lost / Professor at Greifswald 1808-1818 / Appendix: Kosegarten’s Major Works

ADDITIONAL TITLE(formerlyTPA:TitlePage—AdditionalInformation)Usethisfieldtorecordinformationthatappearsonthetitlepagebutwhichisclearlynotpresentedaspartofthetitle.CapitalizepertherulesforfieldARTICLE/BOOK/CHAPTER TITLE (see“Capitalization”onpage9).UseabbreviationsandpunctuationinADDITIONAL TITLEonlyiftheyareprintedinthedocument.InformationtypedintotheADDITIONAL TITLEfieldshouldreflectthelanguageofthedocument(i.e.,donottranslateintoEnglish).RecordtheADDITIONAL TITLEexactlyasitappearsinthedocument. BOOK TITLE | Advocating a “Peaceble Condition”: On Rhetorics of Peace and Order in Seventeenth-Century New England ADDITIONAL TITLE | Proceeedings of the 25th AAAS Conference (Nov. 5-7, 1999, Salzburg, Schloss Leopoldskron) BOOK TITLE | Les Langues régionales de France: Un État des lieux à la veille du XXIe siècle ADDITIONAL TITLE | Actes d’un colloque organisé à “The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA” Forproceedingsorfestschrift,usetheADDITIONAL TITLEfacetiftheinformationisnotpresentedaspartofthetitleorasasubtitleandwhenitisnotgermanetothesenseofthetitle.BOOK TITLE | Mittelbarkeit, Perspektive, Subjektivität: Über das narrative Potential des Spielfilms ADDITIONAL TITLE | Festschrift für Wilhelm Füger BOOK TITLE | La Recherche française par ordinateur ADDITIONAL TITLE | Actes du colloque organisé par l’Université de Metz en juin 1983 BOOK TITLE | The Novel in Anglo-German Context: Cultural Cross-Currents and Affinities ADDITIONAL TITLE | Papers from the Conference Held at the University of Leeds from 15 to 17 September 1997 Whenatitleisaunit,donotmoveelementsfromthetitletoADDITIONAL TITLE.BOOK TITLE | Essays on Folklore in Honor of the IU Folklore Institute

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BOOK TITLE | Bible et informatique: Actes du Second Colloque internationale/Bible and Computer: Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium

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