ISO 10241-1:2011规定了标准中术语条目的起草和结构要求，以ISO和IEC文件中的术语条目为例。术语条目中出现的术语和其他名称可以包括字母、数字、数学符号、排版符号和句法符号（例如标点符号、连字符、括号、方括号和其他连接符或分隔符），有时是由语言控制的字符样式（即字体和粗体、斜体、粗体或其他样式约定），领域或主题特定约定。术语还可以包括标准化符号（可以是独立于语言的或国际协调的，例如数量和单位的符号以及图形符号），这些符号由ISO和IEC的不同委员会负责。 ISO 10241-1:2011基于ISO 704中给出的原则和方法，并为标准及其索引中的单语和多语术语条目提供了规则。 ISO 10241-1:2011适用于包含术语条目的所有标准。它不涉及标准化机构编制术语标准所需的行政程序或技术规范。 由于呈现和布局规则本质上与脚本和标准化机构的发布规则紧密相关，因此ISO 10241-1:2011仅在抽象层面上对其进行了处理。附录a中提供了ISO文件中典型布局和展示的示例和规则，以供参考。

ISO 10241-1:2011 specifies requirements for the drafting and structuring of terminological entries in standards, exemplified by terminological entries in ISO and IEC documents. Terms and other designations occurring in terminological entries can include letters, numerals, mathematical symbols, typographical signs and syntactic signs (e.g. punctuation marks, hyphens, parentheses, square brackets and other connectors or delimiters), sometimes in character styles (i.e. fonts and bold, italic, bold italic or other style conventions) governed by language-, domain- or subject-specific conventions. Terms can also include standardized symbols (which can be language independent or internationally harmonized, such as symbols for quantities and units as well as graphical symbols) which are under the responsibility of different committees in ISO and IEC. ISO 10241-1:2011 is based on the principles and methods given in ISO 704 and provides rules for both monolingual and multilingual terminological entries in standards and their indexes. ISO 10241-1:2011 is applicable to all standards that contain terminological entries. It does not deal with the administrative procedures nor the technical specifications required by standardizing bodies for the preparation of terminology standards. Since presentation and layout rules by nature are very much tied to the script and to the publishing rules of the standardizing body, they are dealt with only on an abstract level in ISO 10241-1:2011. Examples and rules for a typical layout and presentation in ISO documents are provided for information in Annex A.