What is BS 6371 - Citation of unpublished documents about?

BS 6371 discusses citation. The aim of the BS 6371 is to provide the best guidance for citation of unpublished documents.

BS 6371 is concerned with the citation of unpublished documents, which may be public or private in origin, and may include legal, business and administrative records, correspondence and private papers, working papers, original compositions, transcripts or other copies, annotations in printed works, inscriptions, and documents in non-written forms.

Who is BS 6371 - Citation of unpublished documents for?

B S 6371on citation of unpublished documents is useful for:

Authors
Editors
Publishing industries

Why should you use BS 6371 - Citation of unpublished documents?

A "citation" is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again.

Giving credit to the original author by citing sources is the only way to use other people's work without plagiarizing.

BS 6371 provides definitions, general methods of citation, methods of citation in the text, location, and arrangement of bibliographical references, content of a bibliographical reference, descriptive element, and location element. This ensures that users follow the right practice method while citing the sources in unpublished documents.

BS 6371:1983

Recommendations for citation of unpublished documents

Current

Published:

29 Apr 1983