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CEMS Harvard Referencing Style: Standards and Patents

Standards and patents

The citation order, capitalisation and punctuation are as follows:

Name of the authorising body. Year. Number and title of standard. Place of publication: Publisher.


EXAMPLES:

Print standard:

British Standards Institute. 2015. BS ISO 14001. Environmental Management Systems. Requirements with Guidance for Use. London: British Standards Institute.

Electronic standard:

SABS (South African Bureau of Standards). 2013. Standards – Overview. Available at: https://www.sabs.co.za/Standardss/index.asp. [Accessed:17 March 2017].


REFWORKS EXAMPLES:

PRINT ELECTRONIC

Inventor(s). Year of publication. Title. Authorising organisation, patent number. Available at: URL [Accessed: day month year].

 

EXAMPLE:

Fredericks, F. 2012. Vinyl cleaning tool. UK Intellectual Property Office, patent no. GB2468906. Available at: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/p/find-publication [Accessed: 5 June 2013].


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