Brackets inclose words added to titles or imprints, or changed in form.
Arabic figures are to be used rather than Roman; but small capitals may be used after the names of sovereigns, princes, and popes.
A list of abbreviations to be used was given in the Library journal, Vol. 3: 16-20.
Arrangement.
The surname when used alone precedes the same name used with forenames; where the initials only of the forenames are given, they are to precede fully written forenames beginning with the same initials (e. g., Brown, Brown, J.; Brown, J. L.; Brown, James).
The prefixes M and Mc, S., St., Ste., Messrs., Mr., and Mrs., are to be arranged as if written in full, Mac, Sanctus, Saint, Sainte, Messieurs, Mister, and Mistress.
The works of an author are to be arranged in the following order:
- 1. Collected works.
- 2. Partial collections.
- 3. Single works, alphabetically, by the first word of the title.
The order of alphabeting is to be that of the English alphabet.
The German ae, oe, ue, are always to be written as ä, ö, ü, and arranged as a, o, u.