If the material/accompanying material has seriality (that is, qualities which make it serial-like), key in the following to get the 006 field:
006s
The 006 field will look like the one below and follows after the fixed field (the main item being cataloged may be in a different format. The fixed field used in the example is one for books):
CU FMT B RT a BL m T/C DT supplied R/DT supplied STAT nn E/L 5 DCF a D/S D SRC d PLACE ??? LANG eng MOD T/AUD REPRO D/CODE s DT/1 ???? DT/2 CONT ILLUS GOVT BIOG FEST 0 CONF 0 FICT 0 INDX 0 006 TYP s FREQ ? REG ? ISDS ? S/T MED ? REPRO ? CONT ???? GOVT ? CONF ? OA ? SLE ?
(Please note that the NOTIS system supplies some default values. These may or may not be applicable to the item being cataloged)
Listed below are the values for the 006 field for materials with seriality. . These values are the same as those used in the 008 field but take up different positions in the NOTIS record. For further explanation of the field values, refer to the USMARC Format for Bibliographic Data using the numbered positions in the "MARC" column as reference points.
| RLIN Heading | NOTIS heading | FIELD NAME (From USMARC) | MARC 006/ | MARC 008/ |
| TIP | TYP | Form of material | 00 | 00 |
| FRQ | FREQ | Frequency | 01 | 18 |
| REG | REG | Regularity | 02 | 19 |
| ISDS | ISDS | ISSN Center | 03 | 20 |
| TYP | S/T | Type of Serial | 04 | 21 |
| PHY | MED | Form of Original Item | 05 | 22 |
| REP | REPRO | Form of Item | 06 | 23 |
| IS/CNC | CONT | Nature of Entire Work/Nature of Contents | 07/08-10 | 24/25-27 |
| GPC | GOVT | Government Publication | 11 | 28 |
| CPI | CONF | Conference Publication | 12 | 29 |
| ALPHA | OA | Original Alphabet or Script of Title | 16 | 33 |
| SL | SLE | Successive/Latest Entry Indicator | 17 | 34 |