ISO 2145

International standard ISO 2145 defines a typographic convention for the "numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents". It applies to any kind of document, including manuscripts, books, journal articles, and standards.

Description

The ISO 2145 numbering scheme is defined by the following rules:

Example

A table of contents might look like:

0Foreword
1Introduction
2Methodology
2.1Counting techniques
2.1.1Manual procedures
2.1.1.1 Counting apples
2.1.1.2Counting oranges
2.1.2Automatic methods
2.2Quality control
3Results
4Related work
4.1Bean counting
4.2Sheep counting
5Conclusions

Citations

Division and subdivision numbers are cited in written text as in:

In spoken language, the full stops are omitted:

Support in word processing software

References

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