====== Standard Citation Styles ======

Professional associations produce style guides in order to standardise citation methods in their field.  These standards should be adhered to, unless there is a **very** good reason to use or create another style.

Below is a list of some professional association style guides.  Corresponding CSL styles for most of them are at the [[/styles|Zotero style repository]].  

If you know of other official association style guides, please add them \\ (this is a wiki, and you are [[dev/documentation|welcome to contribute]]).

Many style guides are in the form of books which are not freely available; your library may hold a copy, and there are also webpages like [[http://www.library.american.edu/subject/citation.html|this]] and [[http://ia.juniata.edu/citation/|this]] which give free and simple guidelines on using the styles correctly.

The use of unique identifiers, such as the [[doi_in_bibliography|DOI]], is increasingly encouraged in citation styles.

===== International Standards =====
  * [[http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=4888|ISO 690]]  ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_690|Wikipedia page]])
  * [[http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=5195|ISO 832]]

===== National Standards =====
  * [[http://www.niso.org/standards/z39-29-2005/|American National Standards Institute & National Information Standards Organization]]  (free PDF available)
  * [[http://www.bsi-global.com/|British Standards Institution]] - standards [[http://www.bsi-global.com/en/Shop/Publication-Detail/?pid=000000000001551118|BS 1629:1989]], [[http://www.bsi-global.com/en/Shop/Publication-Detail/?pid=000000000001583347|BS 5605:1990]], [[http://www.bsi-global.com/en/Shop/Publication-Detail/?pid=000000000001547540|BS 6371:1983]]
  * [[http://publications.gov.au/styleManual.html|Commonwealth of Australia]]

===== Standards in Law =====

  * [[http://www.legalbluebook.com/|Bluebook Standard System of American Legal Citation]]
  * [[https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/blue/IndigoBook.html|Indigo Book: A Manual of Legal Citation]]
  * [[http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php|Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA)]] (free)

===== Standards in the Humanities =====

  * [[http://www.mla.org/style|Modern Languages Association]] ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MLA_Style_Manual|Wikipedia page]])
  * [[http://linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/JournalUnifiedStyleSheet2007.pdf|Unified Style for Linguistics]] (PDF, free)
  * [[http://www.ipsonet.org/data/files/APSAStyleManual2006.pdf|American Political Science Association]]  (PDF, free)
  * [[http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/index.html|Modern Humanities Research Association]]

=====  Standards in Sciences =====

==== Chemical, Physical and Life Sciences ====
  * [[http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/style.cfm|Council of Science Editors]]
  * [[http://pubs.acs.org/page/books/styleguide/index.html|American Chemical Society]] ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACS_style|Wikipedia page]])
  * [[http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/AIP_Style_4thed.pdf|American Institute of Physics]] (PDF, free)

==== Engineering, Computer Science and Technology ====
  * [[http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/authors/transjnl/stylemanual.pdf|IEEE]] (PDF, free)

==== Social and Behavioural Sciences ====
  * [[http://www.apastyle.org/|American Psychological Association]]  ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style|Wikipedia page]], [[http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx|free APA tutorial]])
  * [[http://www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/asaguidelinesnew.pdf|American Sociological Association]] (PDF, free)
  * [[http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm|American Anthropological Association]] (free)

==== Medical and Biomedical ====
  * [[http://www.amamanualofstyle.com//oso/public/index.html|American Medical Association]]
  * [[http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html/|International Committee of Medical Journal Editors]] (free) based on:
  *   [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=citmed|National Library of Medicine]] (free)


===== Commercial Style guides =====
In addition a number of commercial style guides are published, for example.

  * [[http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org|Chicago Manual of Style]]
  * [[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/index.html|Turabian]]

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More examples of styles in use in particular fields can be seen at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide#Examples|Wikipedia page on Style guides]]

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