Magazine Analysis: Specific Genre - Table Of Contents (01/28/22)

    I could not find a table of contents for the June-August 2006 issue of "Weatherwise", but I found one for an issue published in/for 1977, which was fairly basic and old-fashioned (having being printed in black ink from a typewriter). Above it lay the title, slogan, those who made the magazine, their address, phone number, issue number, and issue date, which is information I didn't think about but probably still won't include in the table of contents. 


    They have an article title centered left, with its authors indented and hyphenated below, all sitting atop a dotted line with a page number centered to the right of them. While crediting the authors would be a good idea, and I'd probably do that here in addition to in the articles, I would be the one writing them in my magazine, which doesn't require any credit more than once. The simple format of this table of contents is probably one of the better methods to create expectations of serious and factual material, but the colors and font probably wouldn't hold up to modern standards of enticing visuals.

    I can't decide whether or not to go with bold or light text, due to current ambiguity on my material and therefore the tone I want to set for the magazine, but I'm fairly sure its color will be light blue. The table of contents will be ordered numerically by opening page number through (-) ending page number for convenience, and instead of authors' names, a caption, if provided, will be placed beneath the title. All articles and statistics, regardless of topic or type, will be placed in the table of contents, meaning that ads will be left out.

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