← Concise AACR2: rule 4E: Date of publication, distribution, etc →

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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