COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BSeptember2003

040 CODEN

This field contains a unique, unambiguous code assigned to titles of serials by the International CODEN Service.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
040CODENr
aCODENnr
zErroneous CODENr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

040a CODEN

The six character code of which the last character is an alphanumeric digit.

040z Erroneous CODEN

A CODEN that has been identified as being erroneously applied to an item or is otherwise invalid. It may have been allocated to two different publications and in this instance cancelled, or it may have been incorrectly printed.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

CODEN is a unique six-character code for a periodical title assigned by the International CODEN Service to scientific and technical serials.

The first five characters of the CODEN are alphabetic and based on the title of the serial, the last is an alphanumeric check digit, e.g. JACSAT for Journal of the American Chemical Society, where T is the check digit.

RELATED FIELDS

011ISSN
A numeric code also applied to serials to identify them uniquely.

EXAMPLES

  1. 040⊔⊔aANPYA2
    (CODEN for "Annalen der Physik".)
  2. 040⊔⊔aJPHYA7
    (CODEN for "Journal of Physiology", London.)
  3. 040⊔⊔aKREBAG
    (CODEN for "Krebsarzt".)
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