The general organization of a text is usually clear from the Table of Contents.  To assist readers to ascertain the finer details of a manuscript's internal structure, it is common practice to vary the typographic treatment of section and subsection headings as a guide to the proper nesting of divisions of text within larger units. Before you prepare a final draft of your manuscript, work out a consistent system for section labeling. Your particular application will dictate how many distinctions of level are necessary, consider following a scheme for headings such as the following:

Level A. Uppercase, bold, centred

Level B. Upper- and lowercase, bold, flush left

Level C. lowercase, italic, flush left

Level D. lowercase, italic, run in with following paragraph

Prepare a detailed outline of your text, showing chapter, section, subsection, and paragraph titles, each level indented slightly further than the previous one, from which the overall structure may be viewed at a glance. In the following example, a system of chapter and section numbers helps to clarify the level to which each heading belongs:

1. Chapter 1. Title of Chapter 1

1. Section One
2. Section Two
3. Section Three
   1. Section three, subsection one
   2. Section three, subsection two
4. 1.4 Section Four
   1. Section four, subsection one
   2. Section four, subsection two
   3. Section four, subsection three
      1. Section four, subsection three, paragraph one run in with following paragraph

       

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