ISO NTERNATIONAL STANDARD 214 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION -MEKIYHAPOAHA OPIAHH3ALIM IIO CTAHJIAPTM3ALIMW ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION Documentation - Abstracts for publications and documentation Documentation-Analysepourles publications etladocumentation First edition - 1976-03-01 UDC 002 : 001.814.4 :655.535.54 Ref.No. ISO 214-1976 (E) SO214-1976( Descriptors;documentation,abstracts,preparation,layout,specifications. tion for Standardization Price based on 6 pages No reproduction or networking permited without license from IHS Not for Resale FOREWORD IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards institutes (ISO Member Bodies). The work of developing International Standards is carried out through IsO Technical Committees. Every Member Body interested in a subject for which a Technical Committee has been set up has the right to be represented on that Committee, International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with IsO, also take part in the work. Draft International Standards adopted by the Technical Committees are circulated to the Member Bodies for approval before their acceptance as International Standards by the ISO Council. International Standard ISO 214 was drawn up by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Documentation, and circulated to the Member Bodies in May 1974. It has been approved by the Member Bodies of the following countries : Australia India Spain Austria Iran Sweden Belgium Ireland Switzerland Brazil Israel Thailand Bulgaria Italy United Kingdom Canada Netherlands U.S.A. Finland Poland U.S.S.R. France Portugal Yugoslavia Germany Romania Hungary South Africa, Rep. of No Member Body expressed disapproval of the document. This International Standard cancels and replaces ISO Recommendation R 214-1961, of which it constitutes a technical revision. InternationalOrganizationforStandardization,1976 Printed in Switzerland Copymainalganizalinr sandardizati No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 214-1976 (E) Documentation - Abstracts for publications and documentation O INTRODUCTION An abstract should be as informative as is permitted by the type and style of the document; that is, it should present as The growing volume of scholarly,scientific,technical, and much as possible of the quantitative and/or qualitative other informational and instructional documents makes it information contained in the document.3) Informative increasingly important that the basic content of each abstracts are especially desirable for texts describing document be quickly and accurately identifiable both by experimental work and documents devoted to a single readers of the primary literature and by users of secondary theme. However, some discursive or lengthy texts, such as services. This ready identification is aided if the author of a broad overviews, review papers, and entire monographs, primary document (aided by editors) begins it with a may permit the preparation of an abstract that is only an meaningful title and a well-prepared abstract. indicative or descriptive guide to the type of document, the principal subjects covered, and the way the facts are treated.Acombinedinformative-indicativeabstractmust often be prepared when limitations on the length of the 1 SCOPEANDFIELDOFAPPLICATION abstract or the type and style of the document make it This International Standard presents guidelines for the preparation and presentation of abstracts of documents. elements of the document and to relegate other aspects to indicative statements. See examples 1 to 3. Emphasis is placed on the abstracts prepared by the authors of primary documents, and on their publication, because Abstracts should not be confused with related, but distinct, such abstracts can be both helpful to the readers of these terms : annotation, extract, and summary. An annotation is documents and rep