Bibliography of Indexing Literature
• Nan Badgett, The Accidental Indexer (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2015).
◦ Good for all indexers, and especially for those thinking of becoming an indexer or just starting out.
• The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2010).
• Linda K. Fetters, Handbook of Indexing Techniques, 5th edition (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2013).
• Nancy C. Mulvany, Indexing Books, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
• Janet Perlman, Indexing Tactics and Tidbits: An A-Z Guide (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2016),
• Do Mi Stauber, Facing the Text (Eugene, OR: Cedar Row Press, 2004).
• Margie Towery, Ten Characteristics of Quality Indexes (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2016).
• April Michelle Davis, A Guide for the Freelance Indexer (New York: Editorial Freelance Association, 2012).
• Anne Leach, ed., Marketing Your Indexing Services, 3rd edition (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2011).
• Janet Perlman, Running an Indexing Business (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2001).
◦ Still timely despite being quite old. Much of the basic information hasn’t changed much.
• Enid Zafran and Joan Shapiro, eds., Starting an Indexing Business, 4th edition (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2009).
• Fred Leise, Kate Mertes, and Nan Badgett, Indexing for Editors and Authors (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2008).
• Sherry Smith and Kari Kells, Inside Indexing: The Decision-Making Process (Northwest Indexing Press, 2005).
◦ A comparison of the decision-making and thought processes of two indexers with very different philosophies as they index the same book.
• Do Mi Stauber, Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing (Eugene, OR: Cedar Row Press, 2004).
◦ A look inside the mind and thought process of the indexer as she goes through the process of indexing.
• Noeline Bridge, Indexing Names (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2012).
• Index It Right!: Advice from the Experts (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.).
◦ Volume 1, Enid Zafran, ed., 2005.
◦ Volume 2, Janet Perlman and Enid Zafran, eds., 2010.
◦ Volume 3, Enid Zafran, ed., 2014.
• Subject specialty books available from Information Today, Inc., covering medicine, legal indexing, cookbook indexing, psychology, history, scholarly, etc.
• Larry S. Bonura, The Art of Indexing (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994).
• Glenda Browne and Jon Jermey, The Indexing Companion (Port Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
• Linda K. Fetters, Handbook of Indexing Techniques, 5th edition (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2013).
• Nancy C. Mulvany, Indexing Books, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
• Janet Perlman, Indexing Tactics and Tidbits: An A-Z Guide (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2016),
• Hazel K. Bell, From Flock Beds to Professionalism: History of Index-Makers (New Castle, DE and Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, HKB Press, 2008).
◦ This book has quite a lot on the history of indexing, biographies of 65 indexing practitioners, and much other more general information on indexing. It’s a fun read.
• Pat F. Booth, Indexing: The Manual of Good Practice (Munich: K.G. Saur, 2001).
• Ana D. Cleveland and Donald B. Cleveland, Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting, 3rd edition (Libraries Unlimited, 2000).
◦ An updated edition (2013) is available through Amazon, as a Kindle format ebook.
• Robert L. Collison, Indexes and Indexing, 4th edition (London: Ernest Benn Ltd. and Tuckahoe, NY, John De Graff Inc., 1972).
• Bella Hass Weinberg, ed., Can You Recommend a Good Book on Indexing? (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 1998).
• Hans Wellisch, Indexing from A to Z, 2nd edition (New York: H.W. Wilson & Co., 1996).
• Two outstanding publications of the Society of Indexers (UK) (www.indexers.org.uk ) are by Hazel Bell.
• Hazel K. Bell, Indexing Biographies and Other Stories of Human Lives, 3rd edition (Sheffield, UK: Society of Indexers, 2004).
• Hazel K. Bell, Indexers and Indexing in Fact and Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2002).
• The American Society for Indexing (www.asindexing.org ) through its publisher Information Today, Inc. (www.infotoday.com ) has more than 25 indexing books available in print, and many are available in ebook format also.
• Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society for Indexing is free to ASI members and available to nonmembers at a cost through the ASI administrative office. Current issues are available online to ASI members.
• The Indexer is the international journal owned and published by the Society of Indexing (SI).
Participation of all of the societies is ensured by encouraging each society to nominate a member of The Indexer International Advisory Committee. More than 50% of The Indexer contributions come from outside the United Kingdom, and all the societies have taken at least one turn at guest-editing the journal. Back issues of The Indexer are available online.
