Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Source

In the Victorian Local History Database the Source field is used to record information relating to a publication from which an article has been taken. The publication may be a newspaper or magazine or a book.

The Source field allows you to record all the details about the publication - title, date, pages etc - in one place.

For example if the article was from Nunawading Gazette the information in the Source field might be:
Nunawading Gazette, 6 May 1982, p5

For example if the article was from a book the information in the Source field might be:
Alves, Lesley. Suburban Voices, 2001, pp9-12

For example if the article was from an encyclopaedia the information in the Source field might be:
Encyclopaedia Britannica , 1889, vol 3, p53

When using the Source field there is no need to include information in the Date field, Place field or Publisher field.

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