The publication field
This field identifies the title of a publication or collection: for example, the title of a periodical including poems by Ashbery, the title of an exhibition catalogue including a foreword by Ashbery, or the title of a CD including musical settings of Ashbery's work. To search by the title of an individual work within a collection, such as a specific poem or one song on a CD, use the title field. The title and publication fields will occasionally contain the same information, as in the case of a book-length poem such as The Vermont Notebook or Girls on the Run, or in the case of a cinematic interpretation of Ashbery's work, a concert performance of a setting of Ashbery's work, a portrait of Ashbery, or any other item for which there is no useful distinction to be made between an individual work and an entire collection.
The publication field will identify the titles of items produced in a variety of formats and media, including books, broadsides, periodicals, exhibition catalogues, audio tapes, LPs, CDs, VHS tapes, DVDs, etc.
Specific information about the volume and issue numbers of individual periodicals is given in the notes field of the citation.
Tips on searching the publication field
*For untitled collections of material, a description of the work will be given in square brackets.
*Capitalization of titles of publications has been standardized according to the practice of American English. Exceptions occur for foreign-language publications and for those in which it seems the author has consciously manipulated the capitalization.
*Initial articles (A, An, The) in the publication field have been dropped from English-language titles (but not from foreign-language titles) by authors other than Ashbery. However, for publications by Ashbery, the initial articles have been placed at the end of the title, after a comma. This has been done to facilitate alphabetization of results when sorting by the publication field without unnecessary awkwardness or inversion.
*Short titles usually are given throughout for periodicals, but full titles usually are given for books.
*Citations for translated works will give the translated title, as well as the original, when possible. For example, the publication field of the entry for the Italian translation of Ashbery's collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror identifies the translated collection as Autoritratto in uno specchio convesso / Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror. Non-Latin alphabets are not usually used in the catalogue; for a Greek translation of Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, for example, the publication field identifies the collection only as Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
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