[DCRM-L] Area 4 comments

Manon Theroux manon.theroux at yale.edu
Wed Sep 20 09:10:12 MDT 2006


>Final example under 4C2: add period to abbreviation "no. 
>4"[DJL]  You may be right, but I'd like to run that by the other 
>editors and anyone else facile with French. It's a French imprint, 
>and I have a vague sense that the French do not use a period when 
>abbreviating numero, and, we do not have a rule that says you have 
>to add a period to abbreviated words.

MT: Agree with Deborah. It is standard French practice for the 
abbreviated form of "numero" not to have a period at the end (and 
"no" is also the standard AACR2 abbreviation for the word).

-Manon 
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