Brief Citation Form | Functionality

The Brief Citation Form, brieftcit.html controls the information brought by the WebPAC from the bibliographic record into the list of search results. Brief Citation is used for all record browse displays; these include phrase index search results, keyword search results, and record browse results. This page is also customizable and some of the elements that can be modified include the bibliographic information and the item information such as location, call number, and status that your patrons will see when they get the Search Results Page with the browse list of titles.

The tokens in this page determine, among other things, the display of bibliographic information
 or , item information
, bookcart , ratings , and more as illustrated below.

The  token in this page will display the image of the

or the text. In order to mark records for saving, your library patrons can click on the image or the text. This will work if the ICON_BOOKCART Web Option is defined, each brief citation will be wrapped in <FORM> tags and as a result the image and text will display. It is easy to remove the bookcart image from this page, in Web Options find the ICON_BOOKCART and mark it Inactive.

The page without the book cart will offer patrons a check box that can be used to mark bibliographic records for saving.

or  These two tokens replace the value of the [fieldspec] with the bibliographic record data located in the specified fields, the data can be located in the fixed length or variable fields. The difference between them is that  displays the fields as a HTML hyperlink to the full record display of this citation.

To control which variable length fields are displayed the system uses variable length field spec tags.

For example, T will select the "best" t-tagged field based on the following criteria: if the DISPLAY_245 Web Option is set, the 245 field is used instead of the tagged field. If there is no 245 field the first t-tagged field is used instead. The token will look like:

In another example, to change the information displayed from a title you can change the token
 to

The token  will display item information, call number, location, up to three items. When you use
 token in the briefcit.html, it pulls in the item summary table just as it is setup to display in the bib record.

In briefcit.html, it is possible to output URL information from single or multiple y-tagged 856 and 962 fields, along with associated notes.

Results Sorting in the Browse Display
The system sorts the results alphabetically by title. When two or more records have the same title, the system sorts on the first "t" tagged field in the record, whether the first tag is a 240, 245, 222, etc. If there are multiple records with the same title, they are sorted sequentially by record number. Your library can use the DISPLAY_245 Web Options to force the system to display the 245 in record browses (not phrase browses). In this case you will want to use linkfieldspec:Vbt245ab.

Other Brief Citation Forms
The system provides three additional customizable brief citation forms:

briefcit_auth.html	The Brief Citation Authority Record Form, briefcit_auth.html controls the display of an authority record in a brief citation. The Authority Redirection Form, authority_redirect.html, it is used to control the display of single authority redirections, both for See references from unauthorized term to an authorized term, and for See Also references from an authorized term to a related authorized term.
briefcit_resource.html	The Brief Citation Resource Record Form, briefcit_resource.html controls the display of a resource record.
briefcit_small.html	The Brief Citation Small Form, briefcit_small.html is good for sites that want to use a smaller, more stripped down briefcit.

For additional information, refer to the Innovative Guide & Reference, Page # (107034): Brief Citation Form.

For additional information, refer to the Innovative Guide and Reference, page # (107040): Authority Redirection Form.