The main social science areas covered are area studies, consumer affairs, criminology, economics, education, environmental science, geography, history, international relations, political science, public administration, social work, and sociology. Social science literature is defined also to include archaeology and sociology of religion. Arranged alphabetically by author's last name. The author's name appears as it is listed in the National Union Catalog .
Hyphenated surnames appear under the part preceding the hyphen.
The name following the hyphen is not cross-indexed. The same holds true for two-word last names. Periodical names are abbreviated in the entries. Refer to the list of abbreviations found at the front of each volume. Includes a list of periodicals indexed in the set.