Guidelines on Preparing the Index

• text
  
• content notes (if any)
  

• prefaces, table of contents, and other front matter
  
• list of survey participants
  
• list of works cited
  

• names of persons
  
• titles of anonymous works
  

• names of fictional characters
  
• titles of works (unless anonymous)
  
• subjects
  

• List entries alphabetically, generally by last name (Ellison, Ralph but Dante Alighieri) or, for anonymous works, by title, ignoring introductory articles (a, an, the).
  
• Begin each entry flush with the left margin.
  
• Place a comma after the name or title, skip a space, and give relevant page number(s).
  
• Use inclusive numbers if the subject continues for more than one page (10-11, 110-11).
  
• Separate page numbers with a comma and a space.
  
• Double-space within and between entries.
  
• Indent second and subsequent lines of an entry one-half inch (or five spaces) from the left margin.
  
• Use one column only per typescript page.
  
• Number every page of the index in the upper right-hand corner ("Index 1").