Conventions of a Contents page

  Here are the conventions of a regular contents page. Through researching and annotating a contents page, I have discovered that there are certain requirements. Consumers look at the contents page in a magazine if they have purchased the product for specific articles or features. This is why it is placed within the opening five pages of a magazine generally. The requirements of a regular contents page is to feature an attractive piece of information which is useful to look back on for the whole magazine. This is done by posting the features' headings on the left third side of the page for easier reading. On the right side of the page, editors often place the main features with bigger pictures to eliminate the point of searching through the left hand side. As with most pages in a magazine, there is a main picture, page number and title. These are the main conventions of the contents page.