Topic summary
Serial publication
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Serial (publishing).
Periodicals
In contrast to serials in general, a periodical has been defined as "A serial publication with its own distinctive title, containing a mix of articles ... by more than one contributor, issued ... at regular stated intervals of less than a year, without prior decision as to when the final issue will appear." Thus a periodical does not admit irregularly spaced publication times. This includes magazines and journals, but not proceedings. Thus all periodicals are serials but not all serials are periodicals.