How to cite/reference international standards, legislations and guidances

nzeeders

Hi all,

Would it be possible to, or how should I, enter international standards, EU legislation, and guidance documents into Zotero for referencing?

Several organizations publish legislation, standards and guidance documents, which I need to reference in my papers: e.g. the European Commission, MDCG, IEC, ISO, ASTM, to name a few.

How should I enter for example MDCG guidance documents found here? https://ec.europa.eu/health/medical-devices-sector/new-regulations/guidance-mdcg-endorsed-documents-and-other-guidance_en

Or which Zotero fields should I use to achieve this for a standard: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/iso-standard-references

Besides the name of the document, the organization, and the year of publication, I would like to manage some other information in Zotero as well, e.g. publication type, edition, date of harmonization, status, date of review, etc.

Or is it possible in Zotero to define your own types and fields for this?

Thanks a lot in advance.

juha.tuomensaari

Hi,

For standards I would use

Item type: Document
Title: Standard title /name without standard number or organisation identifier
Author: Standard organisation identifier, standard number and publication year (for example: ISO 9000:2015)
Publisher: full name of standard organisation
Date: year of publication

but this is less meta than you descibed.

johnmy

Will be there an item type standard in zotero 6?

adamsmith

There's already a standard type in CSL (as of this year), so this can be done via workarounds. I'd expect it'll make into Zotero, too.