Individual issues are collectively published in a continuing series which has a distinctive name. 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.