Concise AACR2: AACR2 Publication, distribution, etc. area

4A Preliminary rule

4A1 Punctuation

Precede this area by a full stop, space, dash, space (. - ).
Precede a second place of publication, etc., by a space semicolon, space ( ; ).
Precede the date of publication, etc., by a comma, space (, ).

4A2

Take the information for this area from the chief source of information (see rule 0A or from any formal statement made by the publisher or issuer either on the bibliographic resource or in material accompanying the resource (for example, container, record sleeve, accompanying documentation). Enclose information taken from anywhere else in square brackets.

4B General rule

4B1

In this area, give information relating to the publisher, distributor, etc., and the date of its publication, distribution, etc.

4B2

If a bibliographic resource has two or more places of publication, distribution, etc,, and/or two or more publishers, distributors, etc., give the first named place and publisher, distributor, etc. If another place and publisher, distributor etc., is more prominent in the chief source of information, also give that place and publisher, distributor, etc.
If a place and/or publisher in your country is named in a secondary position, optionally add that place and publisher, distributor, etc.

4C Place of publication, distribution etc 260$a

4C1

Give the place of publication as it appears.
Supply the name of a country, state, province, etc., if it does not appear but is necessary to identify the place.

4C2

If a publisher, distributor etc., has offices in more than one place, always give the first named place. Optionally, give any other place that is in your country. Omit all other places.

4C3

If the place of publication, distribution, etc, is uncertain or unknown, leave out this element.

4D Name of publisher, distributor, etc. 260$b

4D1

Give the name of the publisher, distributor, etc., in the shortest form in which it can be understood and identified. Omit accompanying wording that implies the publishing function.

4D2

If the name of the publisher, distributor, etc., is unknown, leave out this element.

4D3

If the person or body named here is known as the distributor, optionally add distributer in square brackets.

4E Date of publication, distribution, etc. 260$c

4E1 Resources other than serials, integrating resources, and multiple resources

Give the year of publication, distribution, etc, of the edition named in the edition area (see rule 2B). Ignore dates of later issues of the same edition. If there is no edition statement, give the year of the first publication of the item that you are describing. Give the year in Arabic numbers.

4E2 Serials, integrating resources, and multiple resources

Give the beginning date of a serial, integrating resource, or multi-part resource that is not yet completed. Follow the date by a hyphen.
Give the beginning and ending dates of a serial, integrating resource, or multi-part resource that is completed.
Give the beginning and ending dates of a serial, integrating resource and multi-part resource are not known, omit them, and, optionally, make a note (see 7B8).

4E3

If no date of publication is found on the item, give, in this order of preference.
  1. the year of publication found on material accompanying the bibliographic resource.
  2. the latest copyright year found on the bibliographic resource, preceded by a c, or, for some sound recordings, p.
  3. an approximate year preceded by ca. and enclosed in square brackets.

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