ISO 8:1977 pdf download.Documentation — Presentation of periodicals.THIS STANDARD HAS BEEN REVISED BY ISO 8:2019.
1 SCOPE AND FIELD OF APPLICATION
This International Standard sets out rules intended to enable editors and publishers to present periodicals in a form which will facilitate their use: following these rules should help editors and publishers to bring order and clarity to their own work. These requirements are of varying importance and some may go against certain artistic, technical or advertising considerations.
3 TITLE OF PERIODICAL
3.1 The title should be as short and easy to quote aspossible. It should be possible to distinguish it, without any ambiguity, by its characters or typography, from any other details which accompany it. Advertising matter and illustrations should not obscure the title or other bibliographic information printed on covers.
3. 2 The title should define as precisely as possible the special field of knowledge and activity dealt with in the publication. If the title is in the form of an abbreviation the meaning of the abbreviation should be given in full in such a way that it cannot be confused with the actual title.
3.3 If the title has no obvious meaning, for example if it is made up of initials or of a word in the form of initials the subject of the publication should be clarified by a subtitle which should follow the title, while being clearly different in its layout.
3.4 The title should be given in the same form wherever it appears. The title should be identical on the front cover on the first page of the text or contents page and in the index. It may be given on the spine of each part in accordance with ISO.
In all other cases, for example in a running title, the title may be abbreviated in accordance with the international code for the abbreviation of titles of periodicals (see ISO 4).