The town or other locality where the item is published or distributed entered in the form it is quoted on the item. If the place is not well-known or is incorrectly or archaically spelled, amplification may be added in round or square brackets to the provisions of ISBD (see examples 2, 3, 24). Repeatable for each place named (see examples 5, 7, 25, 28, 39) or for the place of publication in another language (see examples 13, 26).

The full postal address of a publisher or distributor included only when the publisher is not well-known (see examples 4, 23). The round brackets on display are added automatically.

The name of the publisher or distributor which may be in a shorted form so long as it is readily recognisable (see example 1). When a statement of function of the distributor is included, it is entered in square brackets in corresponding language (see examples 5, 28).

The date or approximate date of publication (see example 26) or date of copyright (see examples 7, 34, 37) or date of manufacture (see example 11). An open date (see example 6) or spanning date (see examples 10, 32, 38) is permitted.

The place of manufacture of an item, e.g. the place of printing of a book (see examples 9, 28, 40). If the place is not well-known or is incorrectly named, amplification may be added in square brackets according to the provisions of ISBD.

The full postal address of the manufacturer, usually included because the manufacturer is not well-known (see example 30).

The name of the manufacturer (e.g. printer). May be in a shortened form so long as it is readily recognisable (see examples 9, 26, 38, 41).

The date of manufacture of an item or assembling of a manuscript, when used to supplement the date of publication (see examples 12, 26).

The field is repeatable for resources that change over time so that both earliest, current and, if desired, intervening publishing information could be included in the record (see examples 18–22 and 43–47).

Repeatable 210 fields give subsequent information on the activity of different publishers and/or places of publication for the given period.

All names of places and publishers that appear on the first issue of a resource must be transcribed in the first 210 field. In the case of a change affecting only one publisher, all names of places and publishers must be transcribed in the subsequent repeatable 210 field (see example 18).

Dates in the first 210 field give the complete publication dates for a resource: start and end years (as given in subfields 100c and 100d) regardless of the change of publishers and/or place of publication. Information related to start and end dates of the first publisher should be recorded in the first repeatable 210 field with the first indicator value "0".

Repeatable 210 fields should only be used if the information is known. If you only know the names of publishers but not the different publication periods, enter the information in the note in field 300. When you only have information on some years of publication or you know the start or end dates, enter the approximate period (see example 47).

Parallel data (e.g. data repeated in other language and/or script) appearing on the item, are marked with the equals sign according to ISBD specification. A parallel data is entered in corresponding field and in front of the data the equals sign is entered followed by a space "= " (see example 27). If there are more language groups of parallel data, one language group is entered first and than the second one (see examples 13, 26, 42).

Where place and/or name of publisher are not known, abbreviations "[S. l.]" (sine loco) and "[s. n.]" (sine nomine) (see examples 3, 9, 11, 29) or their equivalents in non-Latin scripts are entered in square brackets in subfields a and/or c (see example 40).

When more than one publisher/distributor is given, they are entered in repeated subfields c, and each is preceded by its place in separate repeated subfield a (see examples 5, 12, 28, 39). When no more places or publishers are given, the omission is marked by "etc." (see examples 10, 37) or its equivalent in non-Latin script entered in square brackets (see example 41).

Date of publication data is mandatory. If date of publication is not known a copyright date or an approximate date may be given with an explanation note in subfield d (see examples 11, 37). When there is no such data, the approximate date of publication is entered in square brackets (see example 26).

A copyright date may be entered in addition to the date of publication; both are entered in the same subfield d with a comma "," between (see example 34). When date of manufacture or print is entered in addition to the date of publication it is entered in subfield h (see example 12). In subfield d or h a range of dates may be entered (see examples 10, 32, 38).

In case of multi-part items being issued more than a year (subfield 100b contains code "g"), angle brackets in subfield d indicate that the data is temporary (see example 32). Temporary data are being changed after every new volume/part is published. After the last volume/part has been published, the brackets "<>" are being deleted. The statement in subfield 210d must correspond to the data entered in subfield 100c – Publication date 1 or 100d – Publication date 2 and also to the statement of the volume/parts number entered in subfield 215a – Specific material designation (see examples 32, 33).