IS: 4- 1963 Indian Standard “OO GUIDE FOR LAYOUT OF LEARNED PERIODICALS (Revised) Third Reprint MARCH 1968 Upc 090, 4:655.53 © Coppright 1963 BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS MANAK BHAVAN, 9 BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG. NEW DELHI 110002 November 1963IS: 4-1963 Indian Standard GUIDE FOR LAYOUT OF LEARNED PERIODICALS (Revised) Documentation Sectional Committes, EC 2 Cisne 8 Des. R RSTn 1 pene eapacy Gee as Rod 4 Bie FS Swat 8. CeetRraere cing fncinion of Speci Libais & Inormion Cee edian School of laeratonal Siuicn Netbear Kichies faa" Nee Bal oo Das (Ate) ee canny Sent 8 tet No Selene g Swuetre and Layout of Boos and Peiglicls SubcommiucEC2: 3 & S pase SE Sap oi ey, 1a ods, Bn 3% Siu SyMomanatine Sain. Seer Caine or Scene Sua A Easxawonr (Aone) BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS. MANAK BHAVAN, 9 SAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG NEW DELHI 11000218: 4-1963 Indian Standard GUIDE FOR LAYOUT OF LEARNED PERIODICALS (Revised) FOREWORD O.1 This revised Indian Standard was adopted by the Indian Standards Institution on 20 Septernber 1963, afier the draft finalized by the Documenta tion Sectional Committee had been approved by the Executive Comittee 0.2 Perioclicals are the principal media for communicating progress in various branches of knowledge. ‘They remain an important source of primary in- 2 formation, and have to be preserved for that purpose. Generally speaking, a new fact is not incorporated in a book for several years, and even then, not in sufficient detail for a scientific worker. Progress requices that new facts, new discoveries, new inventions and methods resulting from them should be made available Immediately. For this purpose, books are in- adequate, Periodicals have thus to play an important role in the advance- ment of human knowledge and special care should be taken to see that their utility is enhanced to the maximum. 0.3 ‘The number of learned periodicals currently published in India exceeds 1000, and is still increasing. In the field of natural sciences alone, there are ‘more than 400 periodicals. ‘Though the earliest periodical ‘Asiatic Researches? ‘was started in India in 1768 and is continuing as journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, there were only about 30 scientific periodicals till the beginning of this century. About 50 more were added in the first two decades. Tt was only after the starting of rescarch institutions and research departments in universities about the twenties that more periodicals began to appear. The rate of growth has almost doubled now. However, divergent practices are followed in the make-up of these periodicals, which are not helptul for easy reference and retrieval of information. 0.4 The purpose of this standard is to enable editors and publishers so to shape the form of their periodicals as to facilitate their use by readers and Iibrarians. By folowing these rules, editors and publishers will ind that they have also made their own task eater, since the rules make for orderliness and clarity. 0.5 Periodicals may be conveniently classifed into two groups, namely, learned periodicals and others. ‘The two groups are distinguished in respect 2