Referencing standards in APA
New Zealand, Australian, United Kingdom and International standards are not included in APA Manual 7th ed. Treat these standards in a similar way to a report.
Reference format
| Author | Date | Title | Source |
| Organisation Name. | (Year). | Title of the standard (Standard number). | Publisher. https://xxxx |
- Omit the publisher from the reference when it is the same as the author
Examples
Online
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Standards New Zealand. (2013). Conditions of contract for building and civil engineering construction (NZS 3910:2013). https://shop-standards-govt-nz |
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Standards Australia. (2009). Risk management: Principles and guidelines (AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009). http://standards.org.au |
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Standards Australia & Standards New Zealand. (2017). Bridge design - Part 6: Steel and composite construction (AS/NZS 5100.6:2017). https://shop-standards-govt-nz |
| Standards Australia. (2009). Risk management: Principles and guidelines (AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009). |
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Referencing standards in Harvard
In-text citation
(British Standards Institution 1990)
(Standards New Zealand 2013)
Reference list
Using Harvard_AUT style in EndNote
Use these fields:
Reference type: Standard
Institution: Full name of the institution
Year: Year published
Title: Full title: subtitle
Place published
Document number: BS 5605:1990
URL: If freely available online
Referencing standards in IEEE
Basic Format:
Title of Standard, Standard number, Corporate author, location, date.
Title of Standard, Standard number, date.
Examples:
Parameter Values for Ultra-High Definition Television Systems for Switzerland, Production and International Programme Exchange, Rec. ITU-R BT.2020-2, International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 2015.
IEEE Criteria for Class IE Electric Systems, IEEE Standard 308, 1969.
Letter Symbols for Quantities, ANSI Standard Y10.5-1968.
Standard Online Basic Format:
Title of Standard, Standard number, Corporate author, location, date. [Online]. Available: http://www.url.com
Title of Standard, Standard number, date. [Online]. Available: http://www.url.com
Example:
Frequency Response and Bias, NERC Reliability Standard BAL-003-0.1b, May 2009. [Online]. Available: http://www.nerc.com/files/BAL-003-0_1b.pdf
[From the IEEE Referencing Guide]
Referencing patents in APA
Reference format
| Author | Date | Title | Source |
| Inventor, A. B. | (Year patent issued). | Title of the patent (Patent number). | Source Name. URL |
- Use the patent acceptance date
Examples
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Brisebois, A. R., Mikau, J. & Huber, K. (2019). Collection of crowd-sourced access point data for 5G or other next generation network (U.S. Patent 20190200254 A1). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. http://patft.uspto.gov |
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Kasabov, N. K. (2010). Data analysis and predictive systems and related methodologies (N.Z. Patent 572036). New Zealand Intellectual Property Office. https://app.iponz.govt.nz/app/Extra/IP/Mutual/Browse.aspx?sid=637094081061108163 |
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Kasabov, N.K., Hou, Z., Feigin, V. & Chen, Y. (2015). Improved method and system for predicting outcomes based on spatio / spectro-temporal data (WIPO Patent WO/2015/030606). World Intellectual Property Organization. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2015030606 |
Standards and patents use the style for reports and gray literature in the APA 7th Manual, section 10.4.
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