Indexes : A Chapter from the Chicago Manual of Style Book

Contents
Introduction....................18.1 Kinds of Indexes and Components of an Index....................18.6 MAIN HEADINGS, SUBENTRIES, AND LOCATORS....................18.7 CROSS-REFERENCES....................18.14 RUN-IN VERSUS INDENTED INDEXES....................18.23 General Principles of Indexing....................18.29 Proper Names and Variants....................18.32 Titles of Publications and Other Works....................18.47 Alphabetizing....................18.55 LETTER BY LETTER OR WORD BY WORD?....................18.56 GENERAL RULES OF ALPHABETIZING....................18.60 SUBENTRIES....................18.66 PERSONAL NAMES....................18.69 FOREIGN PERSONAL NAMES....................18.74 NAMES OF ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES....................18.86 NAMES OF PLACES....................18.88 Punctuation: A Summary The Mechanics of Indexing....................18.92 BEFORE INDEXING BEGINS: TOOLS AND DECISIONS....................18.100 WHEN TO BEGIN....................18.107 WHAT PARTS OF THE WORK TO INDEX....................18.109 MARKING PROOFS AND PREPARING ENTRIES....................18.118 EDITING AND REFINING THE ENTRIES....................18.128 SUBMITTING THE INDEX....................18.133 Editing an Index Compiled by Someone Else....................18.135 Typographical Considerations....................18.138 Examples....................18.144