Citing “Whole no.” journals

Calorion
edited yesterday at 12:17am
I have a journal article where the place I got it from cites it as “[Journal Name] 15, no. 2, whole no. 56 (Winter 1988).”

“15” goes in Volume, “2” or “no. 2” goes in Issue, "Winter 1988” goes in Date…but where does “whole no. 56” go?
  • aborel
    edited yesterday at 7:56am
    It could actually be the page or something completely different, but it is difficult to say for sure with just a citation: references can sometimes be unreliable. Do you have access to that article? If not, maybe you could say what the journal is?
  • bwiernik
    It looks like the “whole number” for this journal is a continuous issue numbering that spans volumes. I would either omit this or enter it in the same issue number field as “2”—something like “2/56” or “2 (56)”

    https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol15/iss2/
  • aborel
    Ooooooh Mythlore is online... I didn't know that :-)

    Yes, in that case we have a volume-specific issue number together with a continuous one. It is more visible at the volume level: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol15/
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