Michael Chopey <cho...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > I don't know where the instruction for preceding the $e with a comma is to > be found, nor the instruction not to include the comma when the field > preceding the $e ends with a hyphen.
The closest I ever got: "A comma is used ... to separate date, number, place, or designation from the name or heading..." (AACR1, North American edition, p. 369). Page 10 refers to "comp.," "ed.," etc., as designations of function. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>