Subject Heading
Back to Menu | Reader's Guide is organized by alphabetically by subject heading. Subject headings are always in BOLD UPPERCASE type. In this example, the subject heading is ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Entries for articles that appeared in magazine or journals appear beneath the subject heading. |
Title of Article
Back to Menu | Each entry always begins with the title of the article. In this example, the title of the article is "Manufacturing intelligence" |
Author of Article
Back to Menu | The author of the article is given after the complete title. In this example the author's name is P. Wallich. Sometimes an article in a magazine or journal is unsigned and there is no author given. |
Name of Magazine or Journal
Back to Menu | The name of the magazine or journal always appears in italic or cursive type in the recent volumes of Reader's Guide. In this example, the name of the magazine or journal is Scientific American.
In older Reader's Guides the name of the magazine or journal is abbreviated. There is a list of the abbreviations in the front of each volume. |
Volume Number
Back to Menu | In recent Reader's Guides the volume number is designated by a "v". In this example, the volume number is 261.
In older Reader's Guide's the volume number is written differently. There will be two numbers separated by a colon. The volume number in this example would be written 261:100+ in an older Reader's Guide, the first number (261) is the volume number, the second number (100) is the page number. Example:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Manufacturing Intelligence. P. Wallich. Scientific
American 261:100+ D ྟ |
Page Number
Back to Menu | The page number indicates the page or pages the article appears on in the magazine or journal. In recent Reader's Guides the page number is designated by a "p". In this example, the page number is 100.
In older Reader's Guide's the page number is written differently. There will be two numbers separated by a colon. The volume number in this example would be written 261:100+ in an older Reader's Guide, the first number (261) is the volume number, the second number (100) is the page number. See example above |
Date of Publication
Back to Menu | The Date of Publication is the last thing that appears in an entry. In this example the date of publication is D ྟ. The D stand for December. The 99 stand for the year 1999. |
Bringing it all together
Back to Menu | So, the entry in this example tell us that there is an article on Artificial Intelligence called "Manufacturing Intelligence" written by P Wallich in the December 1999 issue of Scientific American magazine, volume 261. The article appears on page 100 of the magazine. |
FYI
Back to Menu | The information included in an entry in Reader's Guide is also the information you would need for a Bibliography or Works Cited page. |
