ISO 690 and ISO 690-2 output styles

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Hi There,

Does anyone know of a customized output style for EndNote for ISO 690 or
ISO 690-2, the European and international standard for citation formats?

If not, would anyone like to joint me in submitting a request to EndNote
to develop one?



Jean Alexander
Head, Hunt Library Reference
Carnegie Mellon University
4909 Frew St., Pittsburgh PA 15213
[phone]
***@andrew.cmu.edu

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[...] Does anyone know of a customized output style for EndNote for
ISO 690 or ISO 690-2, the European and international standard for
citation formats? [...]

I hope someone will correct me if I'm mistaken, but it seems to me that
this is the wrong question. As I read it, ISO 690 is not prescriptive on
many of the constitutents of an output style. Take, for instance,
punctuation (section 6.4). The standard recommends using a consistent
system of punctuation, but it does not prescribe which system; it
prescribes that elements of a reference be separated, but it does not
prescribe the separator.

(Like most ISO standards, ISO 690 is not available as a free download,
but excerpts are available here

<http://www.collectionscanada.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-1e.htm>)

If follows that different output styles can be ISO 690-compliant; hence,
rather than, "Is there an ISO 690 output style?", the question is,
"Which, if any, output styles are ISO 690-compliant?"



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I agree with Alex, my reading of ISO 690, is that it is a more general
outline, but isn't specific about certain aspects, such as order of
references.

For example see this excerpt from ISO 690:1987

8.l. Arrangement
Lists of bibliographic references are normally arranged
either alphabetically by the first element or in numeric
sequence corresponding to the order of citation in
the text.


It does provide rather detailed examples to cite electronic documents in
ISO 690-2, but there are so many variations of available information
(yes or no, author known, yes or no publisher known, date of access,
update/revision date, date span, type of medium, that I wouldn't want
to try to make an all encompassing single output style to conform with
this particular standard! I believe that EndNote developers have created
a number of electronic reference types in EndnoteX, and we just need to
learn how to use them! It is somewhat of a moving target though.


Most of the time, we users create a customized output style (or correct
an existing one) and then send it to ISI for inclusion on their website.
A kinda variation of wiki (which is where I got the above information on
ISO 690).

BTW, I see that there is a wikipedia entry for EndNote - perhaps we
should all be working on it! It is a little lame at this point.


Leanne

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Subject: ISO 690 and ISO 690-2 output styles

Hi There,

Does anyone know of a customized output style for EndNote for ISO 690 or
ISO 690-2, the European and international standard for citation formats?

If not, would anyone like to joint me in submitting a request to EndNote
to develop one?



Jean Alexander
Head, Hunt Library Reference
Carnegie Mellon University
4909 Frew St., Pittsburgh PA 15213
[phone]
***@andrew.cmu.edu