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BS 5605:1990

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Recommendations for citing and referencing published material

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English

Published date

30-11-1990

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Foreword
Recommendations
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. Methods of citation in the text
4. Location and arrangement of reference lists
5. Elements of a reference
ANNEX
A Bibliography
List of references

Guidance for authors and editors on the principles to be followed.

Committee
IDT/2/18
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes 89/95802 DC and BS 5605(1978) (08/2005) Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, January 2010. (12/2009)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
12
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current
Supersedes

This British Standard makes recommendations for authors and editors on the preferred methods of citing and referencing published documents and provides a summary of the main principles to be followed. It applies to all the different kinds of work that might be cited.

NOTE 1 Further information about references to published material is given in BS 1629 and to unpublished material in BS 6371.

NOTE 2 The titles of the publications referred to in this standard are listed on the inside back cover.

ISO 9:1995 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters — Slavic and non-Slavic languages
ISO 11940:1998 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Thai
BS 6371:1983 Recommendations for citation of unpublished documents
ISO 9984:1996 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Georgian characters into Latin characters
BS 4280:1968 Transliteration of Arabic characters
ISO 259-2:1994 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters — Part 2: Simplified transliteration
ISO 259:1984 Documentation — Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters
ISO 233-2:1993 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters — Part 2: Arabic language — Simplified transliteration
BS 2979:1958 Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek characters
BS 5261-1:1975 Copy preparation and proof correction Recommendations for preparation of typescript copy for printing
ISO 9985:1996 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Armenian characters into Latin characters
BS 4812:1972 Specification for the romanization of Japanese
ISO 3602:1989 Documentation — Romanization of Japanese (kana script)
ISO 843:1997 Information and documentation Conversion of Greek characters into Latin characters
ISO 233-3:1999 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters — Part 3: Persian language — Simplified transliteration
ISO 7098:2015 Information and documentation Romanization of Chinese
ISO 233:1984 Documentation — Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters

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