Do not count diacritics or punctuation preceding the first work in the title when an initial article is not present. Field 440 contains the series statement when the series appearing on the piece is identical to the established form of the series. The series statement must reflect the series as it appears on the piece. The uniform title is tagged 830 . For more information, see field 490.
Initial articles are input.
Terminal punctuation is not input. Related fields, etc.