End of Field Punctuation
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Fields
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Rules
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10
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Does not end in punctuation. |
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20
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Does not end in a period. |
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50
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No statement. |
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100,110,111, 130,600,610, 611,630,700,710,711,730, 740,830
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End with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis. |
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240, 246
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Do not end with a mark of punctuation unless the last word in the field is an abbreviation, initial/letter, or data that ends with a mark of punctuation. |
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245
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Ends with a period, even when another mark of punctuation is present, unless the last word in the field is an abbreviation, initial/letter, or data that ends with a period. |
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250, 255
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End with a period. |
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260
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Generally ends with a mark of punctuation, a closing parenthesis, closing angle bracket, closing bracket, or a comma. |
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300
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Ends with a period if there is a 4XX in the record; otherwise it ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation or a closing parentheses is present. |
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440,490
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Does not end with a mark of punctuation unless the field ends with an abbreviation, an initial/letter, or other data that ends with a mark of punctuation. |
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500
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Ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present. |
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504
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Subfield |a of field 504 ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present. |
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505
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Field 505 ends with a period when the field contains complete or partial contents, unless another mark of punctuation or a closing angle bracket (<>) is present or unless the contents continue in another occurrence of field 505. If the field contains incomplete contents, no period is recorded, unless the last word, initial/letter, or abbreviation ends in a period. |
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520
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Ends with a period unless another mark of punctuation is present. |
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650, 651
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Ends with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis. |
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690
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Local rules. |
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notes:
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1) Mark of punctuation is a period (.), a question mark (?), an exclamation mark (!), or a hyphen (-). |
2) Separating punctuation in LC's system includes the hypen (-), period (.), and slash(/). |
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3) Subfields |2 through |5 usually, if not always, end with no punctuation.The mark of punctuation or closing parenthesis precedes those subfields. |
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Source:
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MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data 1999 Ed. from Cataloger's Desktop |
Indexed: End of Field Punctuation
Prepared by: Jorge Gonzalez 31 July, 2001
