Help:Converting a NOVEL publication to a CHAPTERBOOK/Conversion-draft

Converting a NOVEL publication to a CHAPTERBOOK

If an editor determines that an existing publication recorded as a novel is in fact a work of short fiction, and should be converted to a chapterbook record, the following changes should be made:

• The publication record must be edited and its type changed from NOVEL to CHAPTERBOOK.
• A CHAPTERBOOK title record must be added to the publication. This will usually have the same title and author(s) as the publication.
• The title record for the novel must have its type changed from NOVEL to CHAPTERBOOK. If the novel has only one publication on record, this can be done from the same Publication Editor dialog where the other changes are made; otherwise the editor must click on the link from the publication record to the title record and click "Edit Title Data" to get the Title Editor dialog and make the change there.
• Because the CHAPTERBOOK type is a container, you must also create a record for the content, usually of SHORTFICTION type with the same title as that of the chapterbook. Thus when you edit this publication record, and look at the "Contents", you should see two "story" content items there (very possibly with the same title): One as a "Chapterbook", and one as "ShortFiction". In addition, you can add content records for INTERIORART, and introductions or afterwords (as ESSAY types) if they're not already there.
• After all of these changes have been made and approved, it is good practice to go to the author's page and run "Check for Duplicates" in case the fiction work was also recorded separately as a work of short fiction, perhaps in an anthology or collection. If so, it should probably be merged—but be careful in case the work was published in two or more significantly different versions.