Typical names include Bulletin , Special Report , Special Paper , Technical Report , and Technical Paper . Individual issues in the series are consecutively numbered, e.g. Technical Paper No. 36. Each issue has a distinctive author and title. There is no regular publication schedule in contrast to a journal. Individual issues contain the completed results of a single research project.
Individual issues range from several pages to several hundred pages.
For all other monographic series use Catalyst . The key is to look for the series of which an individual issue is a part. Monographic series are not listed in the Periodical Finding List . As with individual journal papers Biological Indexes also can be used to identify research published in this format. The following monographic series of interest to biology are found in the regular bookstacks of the HSU Library.