COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BJune2006

531 Abbreviated key title

This field contains an abbreviated form of the key title, constructed in accordance with rules prepared by the International ISSN Centre and based on ISO 4.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
531Abbreviated key titlenr
aAbbreviated key titlenr
bAbbreviated qualifiernr
cQualifier added to abbreviated key title*nr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

531a Abbreviated key title

The abbreviated key title without the addition of any qualifying information. Up to 2003 the abbreviated key title included, for generic titles, the name of the issuing body following a space hyphen space (see example 3).

531b Abbreviated qualifier

An abbreviated qualifier added to the key title to make it distinctive from an otherwise identical key title (see examples 1, 5). In the abbreviated key title the qualifier is entered in round brackets that are generated automatically.

531c Qualifier added to abbreviated key title*

A qualifier in abbreviated form that makes one abbreviated key title distinctive from the other identical key titles (see example 6). A qualifier is added to the abbreviated key title enclosed in round brackets that are generated automatically.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

The abbreviated form of the key title is constructed according to rules presented in the ISSN Manual. Cataloguing Part and based on ISO 4: Information and Documentation – Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications.

RELATED FIELDS

530KEY TITLE

EXAMPLES

  1. 531⊔⊔aMedicina. Supl. bB. Aires
  2. 531⊔⊔aRockfeller Brothers Fund Annu. rep.
  3. 531⊔⊔aAnn. - Univ. Cathol. Louvain
  4. *

    531⊔⊔aZnan. Tehnol.
  5. *

    531⊔⊔aIstor. 20. veka b1959
  6. *

    5300⊔aKulturen život
    531⊔⊔aKult. život cSkopje

    *

    5300⊔aKulturni život
    531⊔⊔aKult. život cBeogr.
    (Two serials having different key titles. According to the rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publication both serials receive the same abbreviated key title. That is why the abbreviated qualifier is entered in subfield c.)