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General Description 1.4C3

Rule
1.4C3

Revise to read:

1.4C3. If the name of the country, state, province, etc., appears in the source of information, give it as found after the name of the place.

Carbondale, Illinois

Harmondsworth, Middlesex

Amherst, Mass.

Optionally, Supply the name of the country, state, province, etc., even if it does not appear in the source of information. Give the name in full and in square brackets.

Toronto [Ontario]

Leipzig [Germany]

Do not transcribe or supply a postal code as it it were a jurisdiction, e.g., [Washington] or [Western Australia] not WA.

[RDA directs transcription as found, with missing jurisdiction in a note ; an option allows providing missing jurisdictions.]