The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing

Successful subheadings

The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing (2013), 31, (4), 0–4.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2013.60
Language
English
Pages
5

Abstract

Creating appropriate and useful subheadings is one of the particular challenges of indexing. After a brief discussion of what subheadings are and how they are used, Fred Leise explores ten heuristics to improve subheadings. He also explores some common problems in writing subheadings and briefly touches on editing them.

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Kuss, M. (2004) Music in Latin America and the Caribbean. Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press. The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online search interface Music in Latin America and the Caribbean Google Scholar

Reid, P. (1996) Art and affection: a life of Virginia Woolf. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Art and affection: a life of Virginia Woolf Google Scholar

Stauber, D. M. (2004) Facing the text. Eugene, Ore.: Cedar Row Press. Facing the text Google Scholar

Swade, D. (2000) The cogwheel brain. New York: Little, Brown. The cogwheel brain Google Scholar

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Leise, Fred