Reaffirmed 2020

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (Part 1) (Second Revision) which is identical with ISO 690 : 1987 ‘Documentation - Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure’ issued by the international organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Documentation and Information Sectional Committee and approval of the Management and Systems Division Council.

This standard was first published in 1963. The first revision of the standard was published in 1978 as IS 2381 : 1978 ‘Recommendations for bibliographical references: Essential and supplementary elements’ in the preparation of which considerable assistance was drawn from ISO 690 : 1975 ‘Documentation - Bibliographical references - Essential and supplementary elements’. in this second revision, this standard has been prepared in two parts. Part 1 of the standard has been prepared by adopting ISO 690 : 1987 and is in conformity to the international practices in this field. Part 2 deals with giving reference to documents from electronic resources and adopted as IS 2381 (Part 2) : 2009 ‘Information and documentation - Bibliographic references: Part 2 Electronic documents or parts thereof (second revision)’ which is identical to ISO 690-2 : 1997.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations, Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

In this adopted standard, references appear to certain International Standards for which Indian Standards also exist. The corresponding Indian Standards, which are to be substituted in their respective places are listed below along with their degree of equivalence for the editions indicated: