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15th Edition18 : Indexes

• Introduction
• 18.1     Scope
• 18.2     Who should index a work?
• 18.3     The indexer and deadlines
• 18.4     Computer software
• 18.5     Resources
• Kinds of Indexes and Components of an Index
• 18.6     Single versus multiple indexes
• Main Headings, Subentries, and Locators
• 18.7     The entries
• 18.8     Main headings
• 18.9     Subentries
• 18.10   Initial lowercase letters in main headings
• 18.11   Capitalization of subentries
• 18.12   Locators
• 18.13   Inclusive numbers
• Cross-References
• 18.14   General principles
• 18.15   “See” references
• 18.16   “See” references following a main entry
• 18.17   “See” references following a subentry
• 18.18   “See” references to a subheading
• 18.19   “See also” references
• 18.20   Accuracy
• 18.21   Italics
• 18.22   Generic cross-references
• Run-in versus Indented Indexes
• 18.23   Flush-and-hang style
• 18.24   Run-in style
• 18.25   Indented style
• 18.26   Sub-subentries
• 18.27   Sub-subentries in run-in indexes
• 18.28   Sub-subentries in indented indexes
• General Principles of Indexing
• 18.29   Style and usage
• 18.30   Choosing terms
• 18.31   Terms that should not be indexed
• Proper Names and Variants
• 18.32   Choosing between variants
• 18.33   Familiar forms of personal names
• 18.34   Pseudonyms
• 18.35   Persons with the same name
• 18.36   Married women’s names
• 18.37   Monarchs, popes, and the like
• 18.38   Princes, dukes, and other titled persons
• 18.39   Clerical titles
• 18.40   Academic titles and degrees
• 18.41   “Jr.,” “Sr.,” “III,” and the like
• 18.42   Saints
• 18.43   Persons whose full names are unknown
• 18.44   Names incomplete or alluded to in text
• 18.45   Confusing names
• 18.46   Abbreviations and acronyms
• Titles of Publications and Other Works
• 18.47   Typographic treatment
• 18.48   Newspapers
• 18.49   Periodicals
• 18.50   Titles of works
• 18.51   English-language titles beginning with an article
• 18.52   Foreign-language titles beginning with an article
• 18.53   Titles beginning with a preposition
• 18.54   Subtitles
• Alphabetizing
• 18.55   Main headings: the basic rule
• Letter by Letter or Word by Word?
• 18.56   Two systems
• 18.57   The letter-by-letter system
• 18.58   The word-by-word system
• 18.59   The two systems compared
• General Rules of Alphabetizing
• 18.60   Same name
• 18.61   Initials versus spelled-out names
• 18.62   Abbreviations
• 18.63   Numerals
• 18.64   Headings with numerals
• 18.65   Accented letters
• Subentries
• 18.66   Alphabetical order
• 18.67   Numerical order
• 18.68   Chronological order
• Personal Names
• 18.69   Names with particles
• 18.70   Compound names
• 18.71   Names with “Mac” or “Mc”
• 18.72   Names with “O’”
• 18.73   Names with “Saint”
• Foreign Personal Names
• 18.74   Arabic names
• 18.75   Burmese names
• 18.76   Chinese names
• 18.77   Hungarian names
• 18.78   Indian names
• 18.79   Indonesian names
• 18.80   Japanese names
• 18.81   Portuguese names
• 18.82   Spanish names
• 18.83   Thai names
• 18.84   Vietnamese names
• 18.85   Other Asian names
• Names of Organizations and Businesses
• 18.86   Omission of article
• 18.87   Personal names as corporate names
• Names of Places
• 18.88   Names beginning with “Mount,” “Lake,” and such
• 18.89   Names beginning with the definite article
• 18.90   Names beginning with foreign definite articles
• 18.91   Names with “Saint”
• Punctuation: A Summary
• 18.92   Overview
• 18.93   Comma
• 18.94   Colon
• 18.95   Semicolon
• 18.96   Period
• 18.97   Parentheses
• 18.98   Em dash
• 18.99   En dash
• The Mechanics of Indexing
• Before Indexing Begins: Tools and Decisions
• 18.100 Schedule
• 18.101 Proofs
• 18.102 Publisher’s preferences
• 18.103 Software
• 18.104 Using the text files
• 18.105 Typing and format
• 18.106 The old-fashioned way
• When to Begin
• 18.107 Preliminary work
• 18.108 Pagination of printed works
• What Parts of the Work to Index
• 18.109 Text, front matter, and back matter
• 18.110 Notes
• 18.111 Endnote locators
• 18.112 Footnote locators
• 18.113 Notes spanning more than one printed page
• 18.114 Parenthetical text citations
• 18.115 Author indexes: time involved
• 18.116 Author indexes: multiple authors
• 18.117 Illustrations, tables, charts, and such
• Marking Proofs and Preparing Entries
• 18.118 The initial review
• 18.119 Highlighting terms and beginning to type
• 18.120 How many terms to mark
• 18.121 Marking entries
• 18.122 Planning subentries
• 18.123 Inclusive numbers
• 18.124 Typing and modifying entries
• 18.125 Alphabetizing
• 18.126 Final check of proofs
• 18.127 Noting errors
• Editing and Refining the Entries
• 18.128 Deciding on terms for main headings
• 18.129 Main headings versus subentries
• 18.130 When to furnish subentries
• 18.131 How to phrase subentries
• 18.132 Cross-referencing
• Submitting the Index
• 18.133 Gauging length
• 18.134 Submission format
• Editing an Index Compiled by Someone Else
• 18.135 Quality of the index
• 18.136 Editing an index
• 18.137 Instructions for typesetting
• Typographical Considerations
• 18.138 Type size and column width
• 18.139 Unjustified right-hand margin
• 18.140 Indention
• 18.141 Bad breaks
• 18.142 “Continued” lines
• 18.143 Special typography
• Examples
• 18.144 Five formats
• 18.145 A run-in index
• 18.146 An indented index with run-in sub-subentries
• 18.147 An indented index with indented sub-subentries and highlighted definitions
• 18.148 An index of first lines
• 18.149 Authors, titles, and first lines combined