363  Normalized Date and Sequential Designation (R)

Definition

The numeric, alphabetic, and/or normalized date designation used on the bibliographic item that identifies its parts and shows the relationship of the parts to the whole.

For information on punctuation, see the Punctuation section below.

1st Indicator

Start/End designator. Indicates whether the data in the field is the starting information for a sequence or the ending information. A start/end pair is linked via subfield ǂ8.

2nd Indicator

State of issuance. Indicates whether the sequence of the publication is still being issued or is complete.

If the 2nd indicator is value 0 in a starting field, and there is no ending field, the field specifies a single issue. If the 2nd indicator value is 1 in a starting field there will be no ending field and the span is open. If the 2nd indicator is value 0 in a starting field, and there is an ending field, the field specifies the beginning of a closed span.

Subfields

Punctuation

For records containing or omitting punctuation, follow these instructions:

• Include incidental punctuation needed within any subfields, e.g., commas, periods (following abbreviations or initials), etc.
• Omit punctuation preceding each subfield unless the preceding subfield ends with an ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period (following an abbreviation or initial), question mark, closing bracket, or closing parenthesis
• Omit the terminal period at the end of the field unless the last word is an abbreviation or initial

For more information on punctuation, including OCLC policy, see section 2.8, Punctuation.

Indexing

Field 363 is not indexed.

MARC 21

For more information, including content designator history, see MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, field 363.