Bi-lingual text with Japanese Edition
The international standard ISO 5966-1982, Documentation -- Presentation of scientific and technical reports, specifies common rules in order to exchange reports internationally. Its introductory clause emphasizes the necessity of standardization respecting with information processing systems. For economical use of papers, photo-reduction or microform is considered at various points in this text.
This text explains how to compose technical reports from the point of view that reports have physically the same format whatever language and subjects concerned may differ. More specific topics can be decided by each organization. This text is edited for educational aspects so that several rules are explained upon its concepts with their background. Also this can aid for editors or authors using very often limited publishing facilities.
As for the preparation of some formal papers, the ISO 7144-1986, Documentation -- Presentation of thesis and similar documents, specifies the rules as an extension of ISO 5696. The aim is to compose scientific and technical books and/or magazines that will be managed in libraries. This standard is going to be appreciated in most of the guidelines for submitting papers to scientific and technical publishing.
This text is written after the rules which are now going to explain hereafter. The text is, however, composed in bilingual form accounting the foreign students practices along with Japanese students.
(*1)Clause number follows with a period in Japanese documents, while ISO not.