Capitalization, Common abbreviations, and other MFHD conventions

Capitalization

Only German-language captions are capitalized

             English and German months are capitalized;
             French, Italian, Russian, Spanish months are lower case
             seasons in English are lower case

Ordinal numbers

              English:  use 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.
              All other languages: use 1., 2., 3., 4., etc.

Abbreviations

This chart explains how common terms found on the piece should be abbreviated in the MFHD and item record.