Publication patterns: Chronology labels

A chronology label can be used to add any of the following to the issue label:

• Weekday (the weekday on which the issue is published)

• Month day (the day of the month on which the issue is published)

• Month (the month in which the issue is published)

• Year (the year in which the year is published)

Not all serial issues will require all of the above options; for example a monthly publication might only use the Month and Year and omit the specific date or day of the week. To avoid configuration of unnecessary options when adding a chronology label you can decide the level of detail you need by specifying the chronology format as one of

• Chronology Date = all details included

• Chronology Month = only month and year included

• Chronology Year = only year included

Once you have selected the appropriate chronology format you can then configure how each part of the date will be formatted:

• Weekday format (for Chronology Date format only) options are full and abbreviated week day names in sentence or upper case:

  • Monday

  • MONDAY

  • Mon

  • MON

• Month day format (for Chronology Date format only) options are cardinal or ordinal numbering for the day of the month

  • 3

  • 3rd

• Month format (for Chronology Date and Chronology Month formats) options are full and abbreviated month names, or the month’s number:

  • October

  • Oct

  • 10

• Year format (for Chronology Date, Chronology Month and Chronology Year formats) options are two or four digit year:

  • 23

  • 2023

A configured chronology label will look like:

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Note that commonly (and in MARC) the four seasons are treated as “chronology” elements, in Folio these are treated as a set of sequential labels and handled instead as a special type of enumeration.