Biblatex style for ISO 690 standard

biblatex is a bibliography and citation tool for LaTeX. This project provides support for citations in ISO 690:2010 style. As the standard is a little bit ambiguous in some details regarding formatting of records, we largely follow requirements of Czech interpretation, as it is required form in many Czech universities. The style can be used in other languages as well, of course.

Note: We have added a functional, though likely error-prone and incomplete beta version for a style that supports the latest ISO 690:2021 standard (fourth edition).

Installation

The package is included in MikTeX and TeX Live distributions since 2016, so it could be shipped with your TeX installation.

It is also available on CTAN as biblatex-iso690:

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-iso690

Install from GitHub

Open the terminal and find location of your TEXMFHOME directory with this command:

kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME

Open this directory and check that the directory $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex exists. If it doesn't exist, you must create it. You can do this from the command line or using a file manager. Open the $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex directory and either run the command

git clone git@github.com:michal-h21/biblatex-iso690.git

or unzip the file

https://github.com/michal-h21/biblatex-iso690/archive/master.zip

here. You should be able to use biblatex-iso690 now.

Usage

\usepackage[english,czech]{babel} % the main document language is the last one
\usepackage[
  backend=biber,        % if we want unicode and many other features (biber is already by default)
  style=iso-authoryear, % or another iso-<style>
  %style=iso690_2021,    % for the beta version of ISO 690:2021
]{biblatex}

Citation and bibliography styles

biblatex-iso690 provides the following styles (both for citations and bibliographies). You can select one with style keyword in the package options of biblatex.

• iso-alphabetic
• iso-authortitle
• iso-authoryear
• iso-numeric
• iso690_2021 (beta version)

Custom options

Above and beyond the scope of package options provided by biblatex itself, here are also some more. Default values are in bold.
Note: Not all of the options below work for the ISO 690:2021 beta version.

• spacecolon add space before colon in publisher and title (and also title and subtitle):
  • [true] Praha : Academia
  • [false] Praha: Academia
• pagetotal print out total number of pages as an additional information in the notes section:
  • [true] Praha: Academia, 2008 [60 p.]
  • [false] Praha: Academia, 2008
• shortnumeration visually distinguish numeration and pagination section:
  • [true] ... 2011, 32(3), 289–301 [visited on 2016-05-14] ...
  • [false] ... 2011, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 289–301 [visited on 2016-05-14] ...
• thesisinfoinnotes print out thesis information in notes section
  • [true] Available from: <...>. BP. MU, FI, Brno. Supervised by Petr SOJKA
  • [false] BP. MU, FI, Brno. Supervised by Petr SOJKA. Available from: <...>
• doi enable or disable printing of the DOI number
  • [true] Available from DOI: 10.5300/2016-1-4/106
  • [false] --
• isbn enable or disable printing of the ISBN, ISSN and other standard identifiers
  • [true] ISBN 0-201-36299-6
  • [false] --
• eprint enable or disable printing of the eprint field
  • [true] Available from arXiv: 1905.10545
  • [false] --
• url enable or disable printing of the URL (this option also affects the printing of [online] medium designation for electronic resources other than @online entry type)
  • [true] Available from: https://github.com/michal-h21/biblatex-iso690
  • [false] --
• articlepubinfo enable or disable printing publication information (location and publisher fields) for an @article entry type
  • [true] Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Ohio State University Press, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 119–140.
  • [false] Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 119–140.
• currentlang print localization bibliography strings in the currently selected language
  • [true] context dependent
  • [false] context dependent
• noenddot enable or disable printing an end dot at the very end of bibliography entries
  • [true] ... ISSN 1082-9873. Available from DOI : 10.1045/july2005-lynch
  • [false] ... ISSN 1082-9873. Available from DOI : 10.1045/july2005-lynch.

Bibliographic fields

Some fields have a different meaning than in plain BibTeX, as compared to biblatex.

1. If the publication is written in a different language to the main document, it should have a filled langid field.

langid = {czech},

2. Publications with online versions should have a urldate field. It is the date when you last checked the publication online.

urldate = {2011-01-12},

3. If the publication has more than one ISBN or ISSN number, preferably use just one of them. Otherwise you can separate multiple numbers with comma in the respective field.

4. Publisher and place:

location = {Praha},
publisher = {Academia},

Some fields are added on top of the fields supported by biblatex and are valid only for this package.

5. Supervisor of thesis / dissertation:

supervisor = {Petr Sojka},

6. Date specificities, anything that doesn't fit into the date field:

dateaddon = {\mkbibbrackets{16th century}},

For more details see the example bibliography file biblatex-iso690-examples.bib.

For examples of the ISO 690:2021 standard see the file biblatex-iso690_2021-examples.bib.

Contributing

Translations

This package comes with the extension of the localization files (.lbx) to their standard versions shipped with biblatex. The naming convention for these files is <langid>-iso.lbx, where langid is the name of the language known by Babel.

If the <langid>.lbx is already included in biblatex, adding a <langid>-iso.lbx is as easy as adding this single file to the root directory of this package. Otherwise, please consider a contribution to the biblatex package first.

If you also aim to add new localization strings, you have to define them via \NewBibliographyString command at the beginning of the iso.bbx file.

A quick translation guideline for the additional strings is available at the wiki page Translation Guideline.

You might want to see also some already existing translations, e.g. english-iso.lbx or slovak-iso.lbx.

Note: For ISO 690:2021 standard there is only english support at the moment.

License

Copyright © 2011–2023 by

• 2011–2023 Michal Hoftich
• 2015–2023 Moritz Wemheuer
• 2016–2023 Dávid Lupták
• 2022–2023 Willi Gerbig

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained.

The Current Maintainer of this work is Michal Hoftich.

This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt.

The package is available on CTAN https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-iso690 and is included in MikTeX and TeX Live 2016 or later as biblatex-iso690. The development version can be found on GitHub https://github.com/michal-h21/biblatex-iso690.