Running Head

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Running Head

A title that appears at the top of each page of a publication. The running head may be the name of a chapter, article or even the book or magazine.

References in periodicals archive ?

Of portability I will have more to say later, but we all access information in books randomly by riffling their pages (which is why we prefer books over the "sequential access" of microfilm), and publishers assist us in this activity with tables of contents, indexes, running heads, chapter titles and subheadings.

Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914

Distinguish the running head or foot from the text itself.

Using graphics in software documentation

|that the xi day of this moneth being ...' - running head: |The deliuery of Malta'[BL Harl.

Christopher Marlowe's 'The Jew of Malta' and two newsletter accounts of the siege of Malta

The plaintiff showed that there was no reasonable progression of instruction in the preliminary gymnastics exercises leading up to the running head spring as outlined in the curriculum guide, and therefore the instructor was negligent (Lenich, 1987).

Tort liability in high school sport

One drawback to this collection is that the volume has no titles in the running heads and no separation between stories other than a line break.

The Best of Adventure

A detailed table of contents, chapter thumb tabs, and topic-specific running heads make it easy to locate information.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint designer 2007 step by step. (CD-ROM included)

The notes are grouped together at the back, where there are no running heads to identify the chapters to which the notes belong.

God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars

My one reservation here is that the running heads do not indicate the chapter numbers, but only the generic headings; since the indexes refer to entries by numbers, it would have been convenient to have these in the running heads as well.