Editing ISO 690 (section)

==Characteristics==
ISO 690 governs bibliographic references to published material in both print and non-print documents.{{sfn|ISO 690:2010|page=1}} The current version of the standard was published in 2021 and covers all kinds of information resources, including monographs, serials, contributions, patents, cartographic materials, electronic information resources (including computer software and databases), music, recorded sound, prints, photographs, graphic and audiovisual works, and moving images.{{sfn|ISO 690:2021}}

ISO 690 ranks among a number of ISO standards that bear on [[academic publishing]], such as {{Interlanguage link|ISO 214|en|ISO 214|lt=ISO 214|qid=Q130295492}}, which establishes rules for [[Abstract (summary)|abstracts]]; [[ISO 2145]], which deals with numbering of divisions and subdivisions of written documents; and [[ISO 2014]] and [[ISO 3166]], which, respectively, establish the correct use of dates and country codes.{{sfn|Delgado López‐Cózar| p=290}}

Punctuation and style are not part of the standard; largely, the standard governs [[separation of presentation and content|content rather than presentation]].

ISO 690 prescribes a referencing scheme with a fixed order of bibliographic elements in which the publication date appears after the "production information" of ''place'' and ''publisher'', but it allows an exception for the [[Parenthetical referencing|Harvard system]], in which the date appears after the creator name(s).{{sfn|ISO 690:2010|p=4}}

The standard allows for three citation methods:{{sfn|ISO 690:2010|pp=25–27}}
* ''name and date'' ("Harvard system"), in which the creator's name and the year of publication of the resource cited are given in the text;
* ''numeric'', in which numerals in the text – either in parentheses, brackets or superscript – refer to resources in the order in which they are first cited; and 
* ''running notes'', in which numerals in the text – either in parentheses, brackets or superscript – refer to notes, which are numbered in order of their occurrence in the text.