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.
| ON PIECE | ABBREVIATION |
|---|---|
| Abteilung (or, Abtheilung) | Abt. |
| accompaniment | acc. |
| Auflage | Aufl. |
| Band | Bd. |
| cummulation/ive | cum. |
| czesc | cz. |
| fascicle | fasc. |
| folio | fol. |
| Jahrgang | Jahrg. |
| knjiga | knj. |
| Lieferung | Lfg. |
| Nachfolger | Nachf. |
| neue Folge | n.F. |
| new series | n.s. |
| number | no. |
| numero (French) | no |
| numero (Italian) | n. |
| numero (Spanish) | no. |
| Nummer | Nr. |
| opus | op. |
| prt | pt. |
| parte | pt. |
| partie | ptie. |
| revised | rev. |
| rocznik | roc. |
| series | ser. |
| serie | ser. |
| supplement | suppl. Spell out on mfhd |
| Teil (or, Theil) | T. (may need to abbreviate on marking slip) |
| tom | t. |
| tomo | t. |
| tome | t. |
| volume/s | v. |
| Heft | Hft. |
| vypusk | vyp. |
| Index | |
| zeszyt | zesz. |