Guide:Religious Periodicals

This information is intended for those creating entries on religious periodicals, which often have quite a different way of displaying bibliographic information from monographs.

Most often, bibliographical information will be recorded near the start or near the end of a given issue. You can scan quickly through the reprint and watch for a change in layout or a large masthead to identify where a new issue begins. Issues often have page numbers, but these will often restart in every section.

• Dates will normally be in the following format: 民國XX年XX月XX日 where year 1 of 民國 is 1912. Sometimes publications will have the Buddhist date (釋迦牟尼佛應世XX年 or similar) but the Common Era equivalent for this varies.
• Publications may sometimes have separate dates for printing (印刷) and publication (出版), we want the latter
• 出版 - Publisher
• 總理 - Manager or Managing Editor
• 協理 - Assistant Manager or Assistant Managing Editor
• 編輯 - Editor
• 編輯所 - Editorial Office
• 撰述員 - Author ot Contributor
• 發行 or 發行所 - Distributor
• 分發行所 - Regional/Local Distributor
• 定價 - Price (not required to include in entry)
• 郵票 - Postal Shipping Cost (not required to include in entry)
• (中華)郵政特准掛號 - Postal Registration Number (not required to include in entry)
• 目錄 - Contents or Index
• 卷 - Volume
• 期 or 號 - Issue