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A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents," is a list of the parts of a book or document (including Acts of Parliaments) organized in the order in which the parts appear. A document (noun is a bounded physical representation of body of Information designed with the capacity (and usually intent to Communicate. An Act of Parliament is a Law enacted as Primary legislation by a national or sub-national Parliament. The contents usually includes the titles or descriptions of the first-level headers, such as chapter titles in longer works, and often includes second-level or section titles (A-heads) within the chapters as well, and occasionally even third-level titles (subsections or B-heads). The depth of detail in tables of contents depends on the length of the work, with longer works having less. Formal reports (ten or more pages and being too long to put into a memo or letter) also have tables of contents. Memo may refer to Most commonly Memorandum. Memorandum Recordings - record company Memo Tibet Documents of fewer than ten pages do not require tables of contents, but often have a short list of contents at the beginning.
Some style manuals recommend keeping tables of contents under three pages so they can be surveyed easily. A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for design and writing of documents either for general use or for a specific publication or organization Since they lack the alphabetical arrangement that makes indexes so accessible, anything longer can become difficult to scan. An index is a list of words or phrases ('headings' and associated pointers ('locators' to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document
Location
Within an English-language book, the table of contents usually appears after the title page, copyright notices, and, in technical journals, the abstract; and before any lists of tables or figures, the foreword, and the preface. The title page or (which is no longer synonymous with frontispiece in modern usage of a Book, Thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front Copyright is a legal concept enacted by Governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship Exclusive rights to control its distribution usually for An abstract is a brief summary of a research article Thesis, review conference proceeding or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline A floating block, also called a figure, in Writing and Publishing is any graphic text table or other representation that is unaligned from the main A foreword is a (usually short piece of writing often found at the beginning of a book or other piece of Literature, before the introduction, and written by someone
Printed tables of contents indicate page numbers where each part starts, while online ones offer links to go to each part. In computing a hyperlink is a Reference or Navigation element in a Document to another Section of the same document or to another The format and location of the page numbers is a matter of style for the publisher. If the page numbers appear after the heading text, they might be preceded by characters called leaders, usually dots or periods, that run from the chapter or section titles on the opposite side of the page, or the page numbers might remain closer to the titles. A full stop or period (sometimes stop, full point, decimal point, or dot) is the Punctuation mark commonly placed at the In some cases, the page number appears before the text.
If a book or document contains chapters, articles, or stories by different authors, the author's name also usually appears in the table of contents.
In some cases, tables of contents contain a description of the chapter's or first-level header's section content rather than subheadings.
Matter preceding the table of contents is generally not listed there. However, all pages except the outside cover are counted and the table of contents is often numbered with a lowercase Roman numeral page number. Many popular word processors, such as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and StarWriter are capable of automatically generating a table of contents if the author of the text uses specific styles for chapter titles, headings, subheadings, etc. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. WordPerfect is a proprietary Word processing application At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was the De facto StarOffice is Sun Microsystems ' proprietary Office suite software package.
Examples
Example with leaders:
Chapter 1: Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Example without leaders:
Chapter 1: Getting Started 1 Introduction 2 Next Steps 3
Example with authors:
1. Introduction to Biology Arthur C. Smith 1 2. Microbiology Susan Jones 10 3. Advances in Biotechnology T. C. Chang 24
Example with descriptive text:
Chapter 1 3 In which we first meet our hero and heroine, attend a gala feast, and begin an unexpected journey. Chapter 2 12 The journey takes an unusual turn, and new villainy is discovered.
References
- Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition)
- Gerald J. The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated in writing as CMS or CMOS or verbally as Chicago) is a Style guide for American English Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, Walter E. Oliu (2003). Handbook of Technical Writing. ISBN 0-312-30923-6.
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