The Abstract (AB) field contains a brief description of the content of an item. It is intended to include infor­mative, indicative, critical or evaluative abstracts, summaries, etc.

The Associated Corporate Body (AC) is a group or body with the content of a work contained in the item or its realization.

The Author Address (AD) field contains the home address of the researcher.

All Fields (AF) is an alias for all of the fields which occur in the source documents, including value-added fields such as Abstract (AB).

The Accession Number (AN) field contains a control number for the record as used by the ICONDA-Agency. It is displayed in this format YYYYMM#######. For example: 1993041001376

The Associated Person (AP) field contains the name of person associated with the content of a work contained in the item or its realization.

The Author (AU) field contains the name(s) identifying the person(s) responsible for or contributing to the creation of the intellectual or artistic content of a work contained in the item or its realization.

Here are some examples:

Brousseau, R.J. [Author/Joint author]
Davies M G [Author/Joint author]
Leroy, C. [Author/Joint author]
Wang, C.E. [Author/Joint author]

The Availability (AV) field contains an identification of the library location mark of the item. Input suppliers deliver this field only if they want to offer a literature supply service di­rectly to customers. They also have the possibility to enter a code of a national library where the literature is available and will be displayed with the Record Identifier (RI) field in parentheses.

The Corporate Author (CA) field contains the name identifying a corporate body responsible for or contributing to the creation of the intellectual or artistic content of a work contained in the item or its realization. A corporate body is defined as any organization(s) or group of persons identified by a particular name which displays in the Author (AU) field.

The Corporate Address (CB) index contains the postal address of the corporate body which is displayed in the Corporate Author (CA) field.

The Coden (CD) field contains a unique, unambiguous code assigned to titles of serials by the Inter­national Coden Service. Although "Coden" codes are assigned to certain types of non-serial publications, their use in the ICF is limited to journals and monographic series.

The Project Cost (CO) index contains the price and the currency in which it is given and is displayed in the Project Description (PJ) field.

The Country of Publisher (CP) index contains a country where the publisher is situated. When a publisher has offices in more than one place, only the country of production should be entered. Country of Publisher is displayed in the Publisher Information (PB) field.

The Collection Statement (CS)statement appears in the same segment as the other data elements belonging to the item corresponding to the bibliographic level immediately below the series.

The Contract Number (CT) index contains the number(s) of the contract(s) in the reference or the serial number, of the project at the contractor.. Several num­bers of projects are possible for project. The number of project has to be recorded in the spelling of the original. More than one contract number is separated by a semi colon and is displayed in the Project Description (PJ) field.

The Date of Completion (DC) index contains the prospective completion of the project and is displayed in the Project Description (PJ) field.

The Descriptor (DE) field contains subject descriptors and can be controlled according to a subject system, for example, selected from a thesaurus or a list of subject headings, in which case they are in accordance with the practice of the system in which it was produced; otherwise they are in accordance with the practice of the agency preparing the record.

The Distributor (DI) field contains the name of the person or corporate body, place or one of the places, (usually town or other locality), postal address, country, and regions of the distributor.

The Document Number (DN) field contains an identification number and type usually allocated by the publisher.

The DOI (DO) field contains the Digital Object Identifier - a unique and persistent digital identification code for any object of intellectual property. The DOI itself consists of two parts: a prefix which is assigned to each publisher by the administrative DOI agency, e.g., "10.3961", and a suffix which is assigned by the publisher and can be any code that the publisher chooses, e.g., "jfde.2019.1.2772". The full DOI appears as such: "10.7480/jfde.2019.1.2772"

The Date of Publication (DP) field contains the date published or dates esti­mated to be the most likely date of publication when no indication of the date appears in the item.

The Date of Start (DS) index contains the starting date of the project and is displayed in the Project Description (PJ) field.

The Date of Update (DU) field contains the date when the record was updated by the agency. The DU field is phrase indexed and in (YYYYMMDD) format in accordance with ISO 2014.

The Edition Statement (ES) field contains a word or phrase or group of characters in a formal statement, identifying an item as a member of an edition.

The Heading Word (HW) index contains subject descriptors that a subject system, for example, selected from a thesaurus or a list of subject headings, in which case they are in accordance with the practice of the system in which it was produced; otherwise they are in accordance with the practice of the agency preparing the record. Results searched in Heading Word are displayed in the Descriptor (DE) field.

The ISBN (IB) field contains a number which identifies one title or edition of a title from one speci­fic publisher and is unique to that title or edition, allocated in accor­dance with the stipulations of ISO 2108 and the ISBN Users Manual.

The Institution (IN) field contains the name of the author plus the name and/or address of the organization to which a person associated with the item is affiliated, or the private address of the person.

The Issue/Part (IP) index contains the Issue and/or Part for a particular volume of a journal. The Issue / Part field usually displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The ISSN (IS) field contains a number, allocated by the International Serials Data System (ISDS) in accordance with ISO 3297 and the ISDS Manual, which identifies a serial uniquely.

The Journal Name (JN) index contains the full name of the journal in which the article was published.

Journal names are indexed as phrases, so enter enough letters of the journal name to locate the name in the index: periodica poly (for Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering).

Stopwords such as "of" ARE included in the JN index. The Journal Name index is displayed in the Source (SO) field.

The Journal Word (JX) index is a word index of the names of the journals indexed in the Iconda database. This index displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Language (LG) field contains the language(s) of publication of an article. The language name is spelled out in full form.

The Meeting Information (MI) field contains the name identifying a meeting responsible for or contributing to the creation of the intellectual or artistic content of a work contained in the item or its realization. Meeting Information can contain: location, country, meeting number and date.

The Physical Medium (MM) field contains the identification of the physical medium in which the item is produced, such as microform, Braille, machine-readable, print, and photographic.

The Notes (NT) field contains any information about the item which is not entered elsewhere in the record, and which is included as part of the record.

The Ordering (OR) field contains information where to order literature.

The Publisher Information (PB) field contains the name of the person or corporate body responsible for publishing the item. It can contain the address and place of publication.

Physical Description (PD) field contains the description of the physical attributes of the item (pages, frames, etc.).

The Pagination (PG) index contains an enumeration of the page(s) and is displayed in the Source (SO) field.

The Project Description (PJ) field can contain the Project Cost (CO), Contract Number (CT), Date of Start (DS) and the Date of Completion (DC).

The Price (PR) field contains the price of reprints or copies of the record's print version.

The Part Statement (PS) is any data other than volume/part numeration, designation and pagination, which defines a part.

The Publication Type (PT) field contains the description of the overall form and substance of the document in broad categories such as annual, bibliography, editorial, encyclopedia, dictionary or glossary, or thesis. A limit to Publication Type restricts retrieval to any of the 24 publication types available from this database. If you select this limit, you will be able to choose from a menu of available publication types.

The Record Identifier (RI) field contains the control number for the record as used by the ICON­DA-Agency.

The Source (SO) field can include a display of all the basic information needed to locate a record, including the Journal Name (JN), Pagination (PG), Year of Publication (YR), Volume (VO), Issue/Part (IP) and Title Enhancement (TE).

The Title Alternate (TA) index contains the title in another language or an equivalent of the title. The Title Alternate will be displayed in the Title (TI) field.

The Title Enhancement (TE) index contains additional information clarifying the title. The Title Enhancement can be displayed in the Title (TI) field and Source (SO) field.

The Title (TI) field contains a phrase(s) naming the item or the work contained in it. It can contain information from the Title Alternate (TA) and or Title Enhancement (TE) indexes.

The Update Code (UP) field contains an eight-digit number indicating the year, month and day (YYYYMMDD) when the record was processed. The UP field is phrase indexed.

The URL (UR) field contains the Uniform Resource Locator of electronic documents, document collections and online publisher shops. These URLs may contain full text access or they may require an id and password provided to subscribers.

The URN (UT) field contains the URN (uniform resource name) for full text.

The Volume (VO) field contains the volume of the periodical that contains the article and is displayed in the Source (SO) field.

The Year of Publication (YR) field contains the year the article was printed and is displayed in the Source (SO) field.