diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/partials/_results.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/partials/_results.scss
index 8aabfc48..301b02f4 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/partials/_results.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/partials/_results.scss
@@ -258,6 +258,17 @@
 
   .pub-info {
     margin-bottom: 4px;
+
+    .format {
+      border: 2px solid black;
+
+      &.primo {
+        border-color: purple;
+      }
+      &.timdex {
+        border-color: red;
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   ul.contributors {
diff --git a/app/models/normalize_primo_record.rb b/app/models/normalize_primo_record.rb
index 35999f34..a46c6fe3 100644
--- a/app/models/normalize_primo_record.rb
+++ b/app/models/normalize_primo_record.rb
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def year
   def format
     return unless @record['pnx']['display']['type']
 
-    normalize_type(@record['pnx']['display']['type'].join)
+    Vocabularies::Format.lookup(@record['pnx']['display']['type'].join)
   end
 
   # While the links object in the Primo response often contains more than the Alma openurl, that is
@@ -277,15 +277,6 @@ def encode_author(author)
     URI.encode_uri_component(author)
   end
 
-  def normalize_type(type)
-    r_types = {
-      'BKSE' => 'eBook',
-      'reference_entry' => 'Reference Entry',
-      'Book_chapter' => 'Book Chapter'
-    }
-    r_types[type] || type.capitalize
-  end
-
   # It's possible we'll encounter records that use a different server,
   # so we want to test against our expected server to guard against
   # malformed URLs. This assumes all URL strings begin with https://.
diff --git a/app/models/vocabularies/format.rb b/app/models/vocabularies/format.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..64228e25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/vocabularies/format.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+module Vocabularies
+  class Format
+    # FORMAT_MAPPINGS is an object listing all the machine-friendly format values we have encountered from TIMDEX or
+    # Primo, and the human-friendly values we want to normalize to. Entries should be alphabetized for easier
+    # maintenance.
+    FORMAT_MAPPINGS = {
+      'BKSE' => 'eBook',
+      'Book_chapter' => 'Book Chapter',
+      'Conference_proceeding' => 'Conference Proceeding',
+      'Magazinearticle' => 'Magazine Article',
+      'Newsletterarticle' => 'Newsletter Article',
+      'reference_entry' => 'Reference Entry',
+      'researchdatabases' => 'Research Database'
+    }.freeze
+
+    # The lookup method attemps to look up a human-friendly value for any of the format values we get back from our
+    # source systems. The fetch method used allows a default value, which is what happens when a more human-friendly
+    # value isn't found in the FORMAT_MAPPINGS constant.
+    #
+    # @param value [String] A format value to be looked up, if a better version exists.
+    # @return [String, nil] The cleaned up version, or nil if a nil was submited.
+    def self.lookup(value)
+      Rails.logger.debug("Normalizing the format value: _#{value}_")
+      FORMAT_MAPPINGS.fetch(value, value&.capitalize)
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/views/search/_result.html.erb b/app/views/search/_result.html.erb
index d0f91bd3..40e33507 100644
--- a/app/views/search/_result.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/search/_result.html.erb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     <div class="result-metadata">
 
       <p class="pub-info">
-        <span><%= result[:content_type]&.each { |type| type['value'] }&.join(' ; ') %></span>
+        <span class="format timdex"><%= result[:content_type]&.each { |type| type['value'] }&.join(' ; ') %></span>
         
         <% if result[:date_range].present? %>
           <span><%= result[:date_range] %></span>
diff --git a/app/views/search/_result_primo.html.erb b/app/views/search/_result_primo.html.erb
index bdb96be3..3abdeda7 100644
--- a/app/views/search/_result_primo.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/search/_result_primo.html.erb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
     <div class="result-metadata">
       <p class="pub-info">
-        <span><%= result[:format] %></span>
+        <span class="format primo"><%= result[:format] %></span>
         <span><%= result[:year] %></span>
       </p>