Cross-References

Commonly Agreed Standard:

Cross-references are indications included at an index entry which direct the index user to another entry.

These are of two types mandatory ("see" references) and optional ("see also")

SEE references

SEE cross-references are those which direct the user from the current index heading, which does not point to any pages, to a different index heading, which does have pages. For example:

In this example, the term "planes" is ambiguous and so the index user is directed to go to a more precise heading.

SEE ALSO references

SEE ALSO cross-references are those which direct the user from the current index heading, which does point to pages, to a different index heading which points to more pages which may, or may not, be of interest. For example:

In this example, the user may be interested only in the topic of computer viruses, but they might well be interested in the other topics too.