ISO 690 is an ISO

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...

 standard

Standardization

Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....

 for bibliographic referencing

Citation

Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source . More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated...

 in documents of all sorts. It includes electronic documents, and specifies the elements to be included in reference

Reference

Reference is derived from Middle English referren, from Middle French rèférer, from Latin referre, "to carry back", formed from the prefix re- and ferre, "to bear"...

s to published documents, and the order in which the elements of the reference should be stated. Punctuation and style are not part of the standard.

ISO 690 covers references to published material in both print and non-print form. It does not apply to references to manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

s or other unpublished material . The latest version was published in 2010 and covers all kinds of information resources, including but not limited to monographs, serials, contributions, patents, cartographic materials, electronic information resources (including computer software and databases), music, recorded sound, prints, photographs, graphic and audiovisual works, and moving images.

Parts of the document

Until 2010, ISO 690 appeared in two ISO documents:

• ISO 690:1987 (Information and documentation - Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure);
• ISO 690-2:1997 (Information and documentation - Bibliographic references - Part 2: Electronic documents or parts thereof)

Examples of citation (ISO 690:1987)

Actual status of standard is ISO 690:2010. The material is copyrighted and not free for distribution. Basically, the application of older version of ISO standard is not a fault.

Monographs:

Lominandze, DG. Cyclotron waves in plasma. Translated by AN. Dellis; edited by SM. Hamberger. 1st ed. Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1981. 206 p. International series in natural philosophy. Translation of: Ciklotronnye volny v plazme. ISBN 0-08-021680-3.

Parts of a monograph:

Parker, TJ. and Haswell, WD. A Text-book of zoology. 5th ed., vol 1. revised by WD. Lang. London : Macmillan 1930. Section 12, Phyllum Mollusca, p. 663-782.

Contributions in a monograph:

Wringley, EA. Parish registers and the historian. In Steel, DJ. National index of parish registers. London : Society of Genealogists

Society of Genealogists

The Society of Genealogists is a UK-based educational charity, founded in 1911 to "promote, encourage and foster the study, science and knowledge of genealogy". The Society's Library is the largest specialist genealogical library outside North America. Membership is open to any adult who agrees to...

, 1968, vol. 1, p. 155-167.

Serials:

Communication equipment manufacturers. Manufacturing a Primary Industries Division, Statistics Canada. Preliminary Edition, 1970- .Ottawa : Statistics Canada, 1971- . Annual census of manufacturers. , . ISSN 0700-0758.

Articles in a serial:

Weaver, William. The Collectors: command performances. Photography by Robert Emmet Bright. Architectural Digest, December 1985, vol. 42, no. 12, p. 126-133.

External links

• Excerpts from ISO 690:1987 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure
• Excerpts from ISO 690-2:1987 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic references -- Part 2: Electronic documents or parts thereof
• Extracts from ISO 690-2 at Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz
• ISO 690-2:1997