Let's set up the issue title elements for a bimonthly serial with a combined cover date. Looking at the issue in our hands we can see that the title is:
MARCH | APRIL 2017 Vol. 16 No. 2
We can set up this title using five elements.
- MARCH |
- APRIL
- 2017
- Vol. 16
- No. 2
Let's set up these elements. Click here for a detailed description of each field.
Element 1: full month name
We want the full month name as the first title element, so we'll set Element type to "Cover date" and Date format to "Full month name". We've set Element case to "UPPERCASE". We've entered a space and | as the Suffix test, and we've selected Add trailing space to suffix because we want a space between the first element and the second one.
Element 2: full month name
We also want the full month name as the second title element, so again we’ll set Element type to "Cover date" and Date format to "Full month name", and set Element case to "UPPERCASE". Notice that we’ve set Add months to "1", i.e., the second month will be one month after the first.
Element 3: year with century
The third element is the year.
Element 4: volume
We want the volume as the fourth title element, so we’ll set Element type to "Enumeration" and Display format to "Numeric".
We’ve set the Frequency to "Annual" and the Increment to "1" since the volume will increase by one every year. We’ve specified the volume for a particular year in Element has the value ... For the date range.
We’ve also specified the Prefix text to be displayed before the volume.
And we've selected both Add trailing space to prefix and Add trailing space to suffix.
Element 5: number
We want the number as the fifth title element, so we’ll set Element type to "Enumeration" and Display format to "Numeric".
We’ve set the Frequency to "Bimonthly" and the Increment to "1" since the number will increase by one every two months. We’ve also specified the Rollover frequency as "Annual", i.e. the number will rollover every year. We’ve specified the number for a particular week in Element has the value ... For the date range.
We’ve also specified the Prefix text to be displayed before the number.
The complete issue title
Here's how the issue title elements look on the Serial Properties dialog.
