Sequential edition number of any given title.
The number automatically assigned to new issues once they have been added to the database. Issue numbers appear on the confirmation screen, in the email notifications, etc. Enter an issue number into the input field on the main navigation menu for quick lookups.
The number given to a separately issued part of a serial to distinguish it from other issues. Numbers may run consecutively from the first issue onwards, but if the issues are divided into volumes, a new sequence of issue numbers commences with each volume.
An issue number is used in conjunction with the volume number to indicate a specific magazine or journal issue. In the example The American Journal of Public Health v87 no. 2, February 1997, this is the second issue of the journal for the year 1997.
A number assigned by manufacturer, often including a numeric or alphanumeric prefix and/or suffix, used in conjunction with the label name for identification and cataloguing purposes. A very few companies used the matrix number as the issue number. After double-sided records were introduced in 1904, some companies assigned a new issue number to identify a specific coupling of formerly single-sided records, while retaining the single-sided issue number as well. Also called a catalogue number.
The actual edition number of a given title.
A single uniquely numbered or dated part of a periodical. One issue is part of a larger volume. ~J-K
Most magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals routinely assign a date, volume and issue number to each new publication in the series. A magazine or newspaper usually uses the same volume number for a year, with each issue having a unique number to indicate the order in which it was published. This information often appears in the citation information. For instance, Time Dec 11, 2000 v156 i24, means that this issue of Time magazine was numbered volume 156, and it was the 24th issue in that volume. The abbreviations v. or vol. are often used for volume and i. or iss. for issue. Scholarly journals some times call an issue a “number” and use n. or num. in place of the abbreviations for issue. See: Periodical. Journal periodical that contains scholarly articles and is usually limited to a specific subject area. See Scholarly journal.
