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BetterRed · 02-20-2019, 08:38 PM

@ownedbycats - I keep Magazines, Journals etc in a separate physical library. In terms of what goes where; the following, which is similar to yours, works for me:

I put Publication Name into Author, and Issue <identifier> into Title. What goes into Title varies by Publication - for some it's date based (e.g. 2008-01, 2017-Q2), for others it's issue number, or in one case Folio number/issue number. Basically what ever is needed to differentiate the issues of a Magazine or Journal.

Publisher and Publication Date go where you'd expect. I don't make use of the Series column. I have a custom long text column for Contents -- I don't use the Comments column because it cannot be edited from the book list.

For this library I have the Author and Title sort tweaks set to copy and strictly_alphabetic.

BR

02-20-2019, 08:38 PM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,808 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@ownedbycats - I keep Magazines, Journals etc in a separate physical library. In terms of what goes where; the following, which is similar to yours, works for me: I put Publication Name into Author, and Issue <identifier> into Title. What goes into Title varies by Publication - for some it's date based (e.g. 2008-01, 2017-Q2), for others it's issue number, or in one case Folio number/issue number. Basically what ever is needed to differentiate the issues of a Magazine or Journal. Publisher and Publication Date go where you'd expect. I don't make use of the Series column. I have a custom long text column for Contents -- I don't use the Comments column because it cannot be edited from the book list. For this library I have the Author and Title sort tweaks set to copy and strictly_alphabetic. BR