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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: International Standards

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

International Standards

The required elements for the reference are:

Corporate author/organisation. (Year of Publication) Standard number and full title of standard. Place of Publication: Publisher.

 

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment: 

International Organization for Standardization. (2015) ISO 9001:2015 Quality management systems - requirements. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization.

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence - first citation (includes full name/ not abbreviated) 

International Organization for Standardization (2015)

Example 2 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence

As stated in ISO 9001:2015........(International Organization for Standardization 2015).

Example 3 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence (2nd or subsequent mention of author/body can be abbreviated)

(ISO 2015)

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