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Content Reference

DACS 6.4

Output Fields

MARC: 581
EAD: <bibliography> <bibref>
Excerpt
Identifies works that are based on, about, or of special value when using the materials being described, or works in which a citation to or brief description of the materials occurs.

MIT Practice


This field could include major publications by the author that are pertinent to the collection, publications that provide great insight to the creator of the collection, publications about the collection, or publications that cite the collection. Create list, include MIT Libraries call number for books.

Style Guidelines

Journal article

Author’s last name, author’s first name. “Title of Article.” Journal Title 73, no. 1 (1980).

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Materials listed in the bibliography note should follow the the Chicago Manual of Style Bibliography Format. See: Style Guidelines>Referencing Published Materials for additional information. For published materials held by the MIT Libraries, also include the call number at the end of the citation. Materials are generally listed alphabetically by author.  

 

Examples

Killian, James R. Education of a College President: A Memoir. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985. (T171.M495.K543 1985)

Powers, James F. “Frontier Municipal Baths and Social Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Spain.
” American Historical Review
84
 84 (June 1979).

Book

Single Author
Author’s last name, author’s first name. Title of Book. Place of publication: name of publisher, date. If there is only a place of publication and a date: Place, date.
Killian, James R. Education of a College President: a Memoir. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
More than one author
Last name, first name, (comma) then the rest in normal order.
Smith, Jane, John Doe, and Mary Whatshername.
"Article." Journal Name 5 (November 2019).
If referring to only one item

Selected letters published as Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers, 1896
For further guidance, see: Style Guidelines

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Content References

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MARC: 581

EAD: <bibliography> <bibref>

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