The meaning of letter symbols in English literature
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I’m asking for help: In the English literature article Bölt, H. V.; Glanz, S.: Increase propylene yields cost-effectively. Hydrocarbon Processing, December (2002), pp. 77-80, what does the “S” in December (2002), pp. 77-80 mean?
I. Reference Citation Formats 1. Journal author. Title [J]. Journal name, year of publication, volume(issue): page range. 2. Book author. Title [M]. Edition (not indicated for the first edition). Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication: page range. 3. Proceedings author. Title [C]. Editor. Name of the proceedings, place of publication: Publisher, year of publication: page range. 4. Thesis author. Title [D]. Location of storage. Institution holding the document. Year. 5. Patent document title [P]. Country. Type of patent document. Patent number. Date of publication. 6. Standard number. Name of the standard [S]. 7. Newspaper author. Title [N]. Name of the newspaper. Date of publication (edition). 8. Report author. Title [R]. Location of storage. Year. 9. Electronic document author. Title [Identification of electronic document and medium type]. Source of the document, date
It’s probably meant to be the German word for “page”; the German word for page is Seite. It can only be typed separately; otherwise it’s considered prohibited content. I don’t understand why. This post was last edited by ludinggi on 2009-4-2 11:56]
Based on what is given, it’s definitely not entirely in English; there is English as well as other languages. “Dezember” is not English either, and in German, “page” is also spelled “Page”. However, from a formatting perspective, it seems to mean page or section, but it cannot be simply said to be in German.
The citation style used by the original poster does not quite conform to standard conventions; such a style is rarely seen. Apart from the possibility that it refers to page numbers, another explanation could be that some journals do not issue just one issue at a time, but rather a series of issues labeled with letters such as a, b, c, etc. (with different labels assigned based on the content). Could ‘s’ be one of these labels, referring to the December issue numbered s?
Please take a look at the content of a German website: http://www.technikwissen.de/libary/common/bwk/2003_Rationelle.pdf. There are many ‘S’ characters there; based on the format, they seem to represent page numbers.
I personally think it might mean standard