Welcome to Towery Indexing

Whether you are an author or an editor, I am happy to work with you. My goal is always to provide the best possible index for each project, whether it is a monograph, a collection of essays by one or more authors, a biography, a collection of primary sources, or any other permutation in scholarly publishing. Please contact me about your project! 

Indexing Specialties

Not only have I indexed the Chicago Manual of Style (both the 15th and the 16th editions), but I have created indexes in a wide variety of subjects. For a list of those subject areas click here.

Indexing Today

In today’s information-driven world, a quality index is essential to all scholarly works.

The index is the link between the outside world of the user (or reader) and the inside world of the text.

A scholarly index must reflect the text in a structure that provides multiple entry points into the complexity of the text while the index remains simple to use. In other words, the index combines simple elegance with usable complexity. That’s the art and science of indexing.,

Margie Towery


I’ve been specializing in the indexing of scholarly works for almost two decades and have publishing and historical research experience reaching back to the mid-1980s.
As a long-time member of the American Society for Indexing, I have continued to develop my indexing expertise.

Margie Towery
Towery Indexing Service
3241 Soldiers Home Rd.
West Lafayette, IN 47906
Ph: 765-464-0158

Wilson Award, 2002


I won the H. W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing in 2002 for the cumulative index to The Letters of Matthew Arnold, 6 vols., edited by Cecil Y. Lang, and published by the University of Virginia Press. For more about the award and my acceptance speech . . . 

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Wilson Award, 2008

I won an unprecedented second H. W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing in 2008 for the index to The History of Cartography, volume three: Cartography in the European Renaissance, parts 1 and 2, published by the University of Chicago Press. For more about the book and the index . . .  

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