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commonly used by cataloguers in assigning subject
headings.

Section 3. Cataloging Format

Once the form of the main entry has been determined,
the title information is added to the P-slip.

a. Title

 The title is recorded on the text line and is
indented two spaces under the author.
 The first letter of all proper names is
capitalized; otherwise lower case letters
are used except for the first letter of a title.
 Other title information or subtitles follow
the main title and preceded by a space-
colon-space ( : ).
 The full title is the beginning of the “title
paragraph.”

b. Statement of Responsibility

 A statement of responsibility is required
for persons or bodies with major
responsibility for the item (e.g. an author,
corporate body, illustrator, editor, and
translator). If the person or body named in
this first statement of responsibility is
recognizably the same as that chosen for
the main entry heading and the rest of the
statement consists only of the word “by”,
omit the statement.
 A first statement of responsibility follows
the title and is preceded by a space-slash-
space ( / ). Each additional statement of
responsibility is preceded by a space-semi
colon-space ( ; ). A statement of
responsibility is required when there is an
author(s), an illustrator, or an editor being
traced.
 Any author, editor, illustrator and
corporate author, who may be recorded in
this area, should be traced at the bottom
of the card, although this is at the

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