Short Story Index - Database Description Short Story Index Short Story Index Electronic Edition is the electronic version of the standard reference work Short Story Index. It is an index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index. Fields Highlighted fields are limit fields. The AN field contains a unique 12-character code that identifies the document.
Abbreviations used are comp for compiler, ed for editor, and il for illustrator.
Author's names can be searched with or without hyphens. When searching without hyphens, type last name followed by first name or first name followed by last name. The order of the words does not matter. When searching an author's name with hyphens, type the last name first and hyphenate all names and initials. Use Browse to search for the author by last name in this Author Name index.