User talk:CatDonGir
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Horizons Science Fiction, Spring 1996
Magazines can be a bit tricky so I had to do quite a lot of changes on this one:
- The title should be the title of that specific issue. We have a policy for the naming: "Title, Date", everything else goes into the notes
- Authors with two initial get a space between the two initials
- "pb" is mass market paperback. "tp" is regular paperback. Although you may have a better format as it is a magazine - please check the available formats.
- The roles of individuals are never added to their names
- We standardize capitalization. See the help page.
- The series name is the name of the magazine: Horizons Science Fiction in this case
- Once the magazine is approved, we create yearly records - there is nothing you need to do about that when you add the magazine - it is always a second step (this is what the Horizons Science Fiction - 1996 indicates).
The result is here. Let me know if you have any questions, thanks for adding it and welcome to the DB! Annie 22:30, 17 February 2022 (EST)
Horizons Science Fiction, Winter 1994
I accepted your addition of Horizons Science Fiction, Winter 1994, but had to make a couple of tweaks:
- Title: For the individual magazine title, we separate the date from the title with a comma.
- ISBN: This field is for an ISBN only (which most magazines do not have). I moved the ISSN to the pub notes.
- Editor: There wasn't a need to note the editor in the pub notes as the record will list it.