Carolyn McGovern’s Index Entries for Chapter 5 of Indexing Books

adjectives, hyphenated, sorting of, 115
alphabet, order of letters, 113, 115
alphabetization
   basic rules, 120-21
   choosing method for, 110, 111, 126-27
   leading function words, 122
   level-by-level, 115
   need for standardization, 114
   rules adapted from British standards, 115-19
alphabetization, letter-by-letter, 111-14
   arguments for, 112-13, 127
   British standard on, 118-19
   Chicago style compared to American standard, 119-20
   house styles, 113
   nonletter characters, 117
   space character, 114, 117
   standardization of, 115-20
   for technical indexes, 126-27
   variations in, 112
alphabetization, word-by-word
   arguments for, 112, 126, 127
   British standard on, 118-19
   explained, 109-11
   hyphenated words in, 114-15
   for nonletter characters, 114, 117
   standardization of, 114-15, 117, 118-19
ampersand (&), filing order of, 114, 115
ANSI/NISO Z39.4-199x (Draft 3)
   compared to Chicago on letter-by-letter, 119-20
   filing order of characters, 113-14
ANSI Z39.4-1984, punctuation in letter-by-letter sort, 113
apostrophes, sorting of, 112, 115, 120
Arabic numerals, interfiling with Roman, 115, 120
arrangement of entries, defined, 109
articles
   alphabetizing within entry, 123
   ignoring in sort, 121-22

Bell, Hazel, 125
biographies, subentry order in, 123-25
book titles, 122
British standard on indexes (BS 3700:1988)
   filing order of characters, 115-16
   nonletter characters, sorting of, 111
   recommended alphabetizing rules adapted from, 115-19

Chicago Manual of Style
   alphabetizing rules, 118, 119-20
   homographs, arrangement of, 123
   letter-by-letter sort, variations in, 112, 115, 116
chronological order
   confusion with page-number order, 127
   subentries in, 123-25
commas, sorting of, 111, 116
conjunctions
   alphabetizing within entry, 123
   leading, in book title, 122
conjunctions in subentries, leading, ignoring in sort, 121-22
contracted words, sorting rules on, 120

dashes, sorting of, 110, 111, 115, 117
diacritical marks, sorting of, 121

filing order
   in ANSI Z39.4-1984, 113-14
   in BS 3700:1988, 115-16

homographs, sequence of, 123
hyphenated words, sorting of, 114-15
hyphens, sorting of, 110, 111, 112, 115, 117-18

indexing software, dedicated, viewing of alphabetization schemes, 126
introductory note, alphabetization scheme, 121
inversion, letter-by-letter sort, 112

keyword
   alphabetizing by, 121-22
   placement and structure of in index entry, 126

legal indexes, alphabetization scheme for, 126

McGraw-Hill Style Manual, word-by-word sort variations, 114-15
main headings, arrangement of, 121
medical indexes, alphabetization scheme for, 126
multipart phrases, alphabetizing, 126

names, large number of, alphabetization scheme for, 126
names, personal, inversion of, 111, 112
nonletter characters, sort order of, 113-14, 115-16
numerals
   arranging in ascending order, 120
   entries beginning with, sorting of, 120
   filing order of (ANSI Z39.4-1984), 113
   filing order of (BS 3700:1988), 115
   interfiling of Arabic and Roman, 115, 120

page-number order
   in biography indexes, 125
   confusion with chronological order, 124-25, 127
parentheses, sorting of, 112, 116, 117
periods, sorting of, 117
prepositions
   alphabetizing within entry, 123
   book titles beginning with, 122
   leading, in subentries, 121-22
publishers' style guides
   alphabetization rules, 114, 118, 121
   homographs, arrangement of, 123
   letter-by-letter sort, variations on, 112, 113
punctuation marks, sorting of, 113, 115-16

qualifiers, to distinguish homographs, 123
quotation marks, sorting of, 120

Roman numerals, interfiling with Arabic, 115, 120

See references, sorting of, 116-17
serial commas, in letter-by-letter sort, 112, 115
slashes, diagonal, sorting of, 110, 111, 112, 115, 117-18
sorting
   in ANSI Z39.4-1984, 113-14
   in BS 3700:1988, 115-16
   determining method, 110, 111
   international standards on, 110-11
   in letter-by-letter alphabetizing, 111-14
   of nonletter characters, 110, 111, 112
   of symbols, 113-14, 116, 121
   in word-by-word alphabetizing, 109-11
space character
   filing order of (ANSI Z39.4-1984), 113
   filing order of (BS 3700:1988), 115
   sorting, 110, 111, 117
subentries
   chronological order for, 123-25
   nonalphabetic arrangement of, 121-26
symbols, sorting of, 113-14, 116, 121

technical indexes, alphabetization scheme for, 126-27
term selection, and page-number order of subentries, 126
titles of books, beginning with function word, 122

unit modifiers, sorting of, 115

Wellisch, Hans, function words in subheadings, 122