Citation guide for ISO publications
General
To cite an ISO Standard, you can use identifiers as the citation key.
The identifiers start with the publisher abbreviation ISO:
ISO 690:2010Dated and undated references
If you need to cite a specific year of an ISO Standard, use identifiers with the year:
ISO 690-2:1997
Without the year, the latest version of the standard will be cited.
Co-published standards
Co-publishers, such as ISO/IEC, ISO/IEEE, etc., are supported:
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 ISO/IEEE 11073-20702:2018
Stages
Document stage can be used in identifiers published by ISO, such as ISO/WD, or in the case of ISO/IEC, ISO/IEC WD:
ISO/WD 9139 ISO/IEC WD 29128-3
Types
Document types can be used in identifiers published by ISO, such as ISO/TR, or in the case of ISO/IEC, ISO/IEC TR:
ISO/TR 20123:2023 ISO/IEC TR 7052:2023
Document types can also be used in identifiers along with the stage, such as ISO/WD TR and ISO/IEC WD TR:
ISO/WD TR 19626-3 ISO/IEC WD TR 20000-17
Amendments and corrigenda
The identifier can include a year and amendment/corrigendum.
ISO 690:2010/Amd 1:2018 ISO/IEC 23003-1:2007/Amd 1:2008/Cor 3:2015
Parts
Some ISO Standards can have multiple parts. To cite a certain part of an ISO Standard, use an identifier with a part number:
ISO 690-2:1997
To cite all parts of the ISO Standard, use an identifier without part and year,
and add the (all parts) option to it:
ISO 690 (all parts)