Editorial Manual 

Policy questions

Links on this page will connect you to policy documents that may be of interest to authors and editors, including editorial directives and documents in the series “Regulations for the control and limitation of documentation”. 

• Secretariat policy on the preparation of official documents
• Covers and title pages of publications (Editorial Manual, article H 1, pp. 467-472) 
• Attribution of authorship 
• Copyright principles, practice and procedure 
  • 1987
  • 1992
• Criteria for the selection of material to be issued as United Nations publications 
• Mention of names of commercial firms in United Nations documents and publications 
• Newsletters and other information materials in printed or electronic format 
• Use of the United Nations emblem on documents and publications (Editorial Manual, article H 3, pp. 478-485) 
• Papers and reports of seminars and similar meetings (Editorial Manual, article H 9, pp. 503-511) 
• ISBN and ISSN for United Nations publications 
• Categories of distribution of documents and meeting records (Editorial Manual, article H 4, pp. 487-88)
• Guidelines for publication of maps 
• References and acknowledgments 
• Guidelines for electronic publishing 
• Guidelines for publishing in an electronic format 
• United Nations Internet publishing
• Terminology: “Persian Gulf” and “Gulf” 
• Nomenclature: Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 
• Guidelines for gender-inclusive language