NISO TR03 : 0
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GUIDELINES FOR ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF LETTERS AND SORTING OF NUMERALS AND OTHER SYMBOLS
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English
Foreword
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Order of characters
3.1 Spaces
3.2 Punctuation marks treated as spaces
3.3 Punctuation marks ignored
3.4 Symbols other than numerals, letters
and punctuation marks
3.5 Numerals (0 through 9)
3.6 Letters (A through Z)
3.6.1 Modified letters
3.7 Superscript and subscript characters
4 Headings
4.1 Arrangement of headings
4.1.1 Single-word headings
4.1.2 Multi-word headings
4.1.2.1 Word-by-word
4.1.2.2 Letter-by-letter
4.2 Headings with qualifiers
4.3 Headings with identical initial words
4.4 Headings with cross-references
4.5 Subheadings
4.6 Headings beginning with articles
5 Abbreviations
6 Numbers
6.1 Headings containing numbers
6.2 Punctuation in numbers
6.3 Decimal fractions
6.4 Roman numbers
7 Arrangement of symbols other than numerals and
letters
7.1 Arrangement in standardized or traditional
sequence
7.2 Arrangement in order of appearance
7.3 Arrangement by verbal equivalent
7.3.1 Ampersand (&)
Bibliography
Appendix A - Comprehensive example
Appendix B - Special characters
Index
Figures
1 - Basic sequence of characters
2 - Comparison of methods for arranging headings
3 - Example of alphabetized abbreviations
4 - Two arrangements of symbols and headings
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