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An interoperable, machine-readable data model for citations — created by the authors of ISO 690:2021, trusted by IETF, BIPM, OIML, and 25+ standards organizations.
id: ISO 690:2010
title:
- content: Information and documentation
language: en
script: Latn
- content: Guidelines for bibliographic
language: en
script: Latn
type: standard
docid:
id: ISO 690:2010
type: ISO
date:
- type: published
value: '2010'
contributor:
- organization:
name: International Organization
for Standardization
role:
- publisher
edition: "2"Relaton spans from the ISO 690 standard through to formatted citations — a complete pipeline for machine-readable references.
The international standard for bibliographic references and citations — Relaton is its machine-readable implementation.
BibliographicItem + 14 entities, 60+ relation types — a comprehensive data model covering all ISO 690 data elements.
YAML, XML, BibTeX, AsciiBib, and JSON-LD — the same data in five formats, suited to different workflows.
27 flavor gems retrieve metadata from SDO datasets by publication identifier — no manual citation maintenance.
Formatted citations in ISO 690, APA, MLA, and custom styles — beyond what BibTeX or CSL can express.
28 organizations across international, regional, national, and identifier bodies.
Industry32 Ruby gems covering core libraries, CLI tools, and 29 flavor-specific data retrievers.
relaton and relaton-bib — the foundation
relaton-cli — build, fetch, convert
One per standards organization
The Relaton documentation site has been completely redesigned with new ISO 690 companion guides, flavor-specific model extension documentation, serialization examples in multiple formats, and restructured information architecture.
Read more →Relaton now supports auto-fetching OpenLibrary bibliographic information via ISBN-10 and ISBN-13.
Read more →With the adoption of the latest NIST PubID 1.0 scheme, the NIST Library has retroactively applied the scheme to CSWPs. This post provides the mapping.
Read more →Relaton now supports auto-fetching Crossref bibliographic information via DOI identifiers.
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