What are the standards relevant to index production?
The main standards are: • ISO 999:1996 Information and documentation – Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes This International Standard is reproduced verbatim as BS ISO 999:1996 and is the UK national standard. • BS 1749:1985 British Standard Recommendations for Alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numbers and symbols This British Standard gives recommendations for the alphabetical arrangement of entries in lists of all kinds. It covers the arrangement of numbers and symbols but does not include rules for the form of entries. Copies of these standards may be obtained from British Standards Online For others which may also be useful see the Indexing Resources page. These standards provide guidelines which should be followed in the absence of other instructions, however many publishers have their own rules which must be used in order to maintain consistency with their other publications.
