ABSTRACT
The currently accepted guidelines for the creation of uniform titles for serials cause certain difficulties when the title proper, exclusive of the name of the issuing body, consists of an initial generic term. Among these difficulties are (1) the need to predict the existence and form of a grammatical link between the generic term and the corporate name; (2) the use of the catalog heading for the issuing body as the qualifier, which may reverse the “natural” order of hierarchical elements or be in a language different from the title proper; and (3) the usual placement of the qualifier after the title proper when the title proper consists of a common title and section title. Alternative guidelines intended to rectify these problems are proposed.
