When a title change is minor, revise the title to reflect the latest issue. Make notes, using date spans, to indicate earlier titles. Consider the following to be minor changes in title proper:
a) a difference in the representation of a word or words anywhere in the title (e.g., one spelling vs. another (including official orthographic changes); abbreviated word or sign or symbol vs. spelled-out form; arabic numeral(s) vs. roman numeral(s); numbers or dates vs. spelled-out form; hyphenated words vs. unhyphenated words; one-word compounds vs. two-word compounds, whether hyphenated or not; an acronym or initialism vs. full form; or a change in grammatical form (e.g., singular vs. plural, adjective vs. noun, and genitive vs. nominative))
b) the addition, deletion, or change of articles, prepositions, or conjunctions anywhere in the title
c) a difference involving the name of the same corporate body and elements of its hierarchy or their grammatical connection anywhere in the title (e.g., the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of the name of the same corporate body or the substitution of a variant form, the presence or absence of the name or title of the official of the body, or the presence or absence of the body to whom a publication is presented)
d) the addition, deletion, or change of punctuation, including initialisms and letters with separating punctuation vs. those without separating punctuation, anywhere in the title
e) a different order of titles when the title is given in more than one language and/or script, provided that the title chosen as the title proper still appears as a parallel title
f) the addition, deletion, or change of words anywhere in the title that link the title to the numbering
g) two or more titles proper used on different issues of a serial according to a regular pattern
h) the addition to, deletion from, or change in the order of words in a list (i.e., at least three terms) anywhere in the title, provided that there is no significant change in the subject matter
i) the addition, deletion, or rearrangement anywhere in the title of words that indicate the type of resource such as "magazine," "journal," or "newsletter" or their equivalent in other languages as long as the change does not signal a change in type of resource. A word denoting frequency (e.g., "monthly") does not indicate a type of resource.
