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Cover (Source of title proper) has: November/December 2013; table of contents has: Volume 4, Number 6 (November/December 2013)
Record 588 as: 588 0# Vol. 4, no. 6 (November/December 2013); title from cover.
Treat the numbering appearing in the 362 1#, 588 fields, and other fields where issue designation is recorded as transcribed data. Record the captions and numbering as they appear on the piece following the guidelines in RDA 1.7 and RDA 1.8, staying consistent with established capitalization conventions (CCM:8.4.1)
Form of Numbering. PCC catalogers currently have the option to record the numbering as it appears or substitute Arabic forms for other numeric systems.
Issue has: volume XVI, number 1:
Record as: 362 1# $a Began with: Volume 16, number 1.
Convert words to Numbers. CONSER practice is to convert numbers expressed in words into numbers. (CCM: 8.4.2)
Issue has: First Issue February 1991.
Record as: 362 1# $a 1st (February 1991)