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362 - Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2007

Beginning/ending date(s) of an item and/or the sequential designations used on each part. Dates to be used in this field are chronological designations that identify individual issues of the continuing resource. The sequential designations are usually numeric but can be alphabetic as well. The information may be formatted or unformatted. If the date information has been obtained from a source other than the first and/or last issue of the item published, the information is given in an unformatted note and the source of the information is usually cited.

Indicators
First - Format of date
0 - Formatted style
1 - Unformatted note
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Dates of publication and/or sequential designation (NR)
When both a sequential designation and a chronological designation are given, the chronological one is enclosed in parentheses.
$z - Source of information (NR)
Citation of the source of information contained in subfield $a; used only when the first indicator position contains value 1 (unformatted notes).
$6 - Linkage (NR)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
362 0#$aVol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1981)-
362 0#$a1968-
362 0#$aVol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1983)-v. 1, no. 3 (June 1983)
362 1#$aBegan with 1930 issue.$zCf. Letter from Ak. State Highway Dept., Aug. 6, 1975.
362 1#$aCeased with 2 (1964)
362 0#$aVol. 77, num. 1 (enero-abr. 1981)-

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