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IS0 RECOMMENDATION
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LAYOUT OF PERIODICALS
lSt EDITION
October 1955
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BRIEF HISTORY
This IS0 Recommendation R 8 on the Layout of Periodicals was prepared
by Technical Committee IS0 /TC 46-Documentation, the Secretariat of which
is held by the Nederlands Instituut voor Documentatie en Registratuur (N.I.D.
E.R.) on behalf of the Hoofdcommissie voor de Normalisatie in Nederland
(H . C.N.N .) .
The Technical Committee has been studying this question since 1947. A
draft proposal was discussed at the first meeting of IS0 /TC 46 held at The
A new text drawn up by the Secretariat was examined
Hague in June 1948.
at the second plenary meeting (Ascona, April 1950) and adopted by the Tech-
nical Committee as a Draft IS0 Recommendation. This Draft was cir-
culated to all the IS0 Member Bodies in September 1950, but it did not meet with
the approval of the majority of the Member Bodies.
At its third meeting (Rome, September 1951), the Technical Committee
decided to submit a second Draft IS0 Recommendation to-all the Member
Bodies, which was circulated in December 1951.
Finally, at the fourth plenary meeting of IS0 /TC 46 (Copenhagen, October
1952) it was decided to submit a third Draft IS0 Recommendation. This
Draft was circulated in May 1953 and was approved by the following 21 (out
of a total of 34) Member Bodies:
Austria Ireland Poland
Belgium
Israel Portugal
Canada Japan Spain
Chile Mexico Sweden
Denmark Netherlands Switzerland
Union of South Africa
France New Zealand
Pakistan United Kingdom
Hungary
One Member Body stated that it had no objection to the approval of the
Draft:
U.S.A.
Taking into consideration the observations submitted by various Member
Bodies, the Secretariat made a few modifications to the text of the Draft.
The revised text of the Draft was submitted to the IS0 Council which
decided, at its meeting held in Geneva from 27 to 30 September, 1954, to accept
it as an IS0 RECOMMENDATION (Resolution No. 11, Council 1954).
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lSO/R 8 - 1954 (E)
IS0 Recommendation R8 September 1954
LAYOUT OF PERIODICALS
I NT RO DU CTl ON
The purpose of these rules is to enable editors and publishers so to shape
the form of their periodicals as to facilitate their use by readers and librarians;
by following the rules, editors and publishers will find that they have also made
their own task easier, since the rules make for order and clarity. These rules
are not all of equal importance, ind some of them may be contrary to certain
conceptions concerning artistic presentation, the technique of production, or
advertisement. In such cases, they should be followed as closely as possible.
1. TITLE
1.1 The title of a periodical should be as short and as easily quoted as
possible. It may be amplified by a sub-title. If it is composed of
initials, these should be explained by the sub-title.
1.2 The title or the sub-title should define as exactly as possible the specific
field of knowledge with which the periodical is concerned.
1.3 The title should be uniform wherever it appears. It should be the same
in text and spelling on the first page of the cover, on the title page,
in the table of contents and in the index. Elsewhere, e.g. in the running
head, it may be abbreviated in accordance with the International Code
for the Abbreviation of Titles of Periodicals (IS0 Recolilmendation R 4).
2. ISSUE
2.1 The format of all issues of a periodical should be the same.') A sum-
cient margin should be left for cutting and binding.
2.2 The covers should not be paginated with the text.
2.3 Advertisements should never obscure the title or other bibliographical
details printed on the covers.
2.4 The front page of the cover, or the first page of the body, should serve
as temporary title page of the issue, that is, it should give:
the title,
the name of the sponsoring organization (if any),
the number of the volume and issue (see paragraph 3.5.1),
the name of the editor(s) (if any),
the name and address of the publisher,
the date of issue,
a bibliographical strip, to be printed on the lower margin of the
front page of the cover. Reference should be made for details
to the Draft IS0 Recommendation No. 31 - Bibliographical
strip.
It is desirable that these items should appear always in the same
place in each issue of a periodical.
2.4.1 When an issue contains an index to the volume, this fact should
be noted on the temporary title page (see paragraph 2.4).
') Except as provided in paragraph 4.1.
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2.5 The frequency of publication, the price of the subscription and the
price of a single issue should appear in the same position in each issue.
2.5.1 The contents list should also appear in the same position in each
issue.
2.6 Where it is possible to print the title of a periodical on the spine of a
single issue, this should be printed either across the spine or along the
spine in such a way as to be readable when the issue is lying flat, front
cover uppermost. In addition to the title, the dates, the number and
the pages of the issue should be given.
2.7
It is recommended that the issue number should be printed on the
front cover as near the spine as possible, preferably to the left of the
bibliographical strip.
2.8 Unless absolutely necessary, the printing of the text in more than one
colour is to be avoided.
3. VOLUME
3.1 A volume should include:
the title page,
the table of contents page(s),
the text,
the index(es).
3.2 It is desirable that, when possible, the year of publication should
correspond to the calendar year.
3.3 Should, however, the period covered by the volume not correspond to
the calendar year,
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