The respondent or defender of an academical thesis is to be considered as the author, unless the work unequivocally appears to be the work of the praeses.
Books having more than one author to be entered under the one first named in the title, with a reference from each of the others.
Reports of civil actions are to be entered under the name of the party to the suit which stands first on the title page. Reports of crown and criminal proceedings are to be entered under the name of the defendant. Admiralty proceedings relating to vessels are to be put under the name of the vessel.
Noblemen are to be entered under their titles, unless the family name is decidedly better known.
Ecclesiastical dignitaries, unless popes or sovereigns, are to be entered under their surnames.
Sovereigns (other than Greek or Roman), ruling princes, Oriental writers, popes, friars, persons canonized, and all other persons known only by their first name, are to be entered under this first name.
Married women, and other persons who have changed their names, are to be put under the last well-known form.
A pseudonym may be used instead of the surname (and only a reference to the pseudonym made under the surname) when an author is much more known by his false than by his real name. In case of doubt, use the real name.
A society is to be entered under the first word, not an article, of its corporate name, with references from any other name by which it is known, especially from the name of the place where its headquarters are established, if it is often called by that name.
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