Add references in the normative references & bibliography clauses
In this article
1 Reference to ISO/IEC/CENELEC standard
2 Reference to other standards
3 Other references (books, journals, websites)
1 Reference to ISO/IEC/CENELEC standard
- The clauses 2 Normative references and Bibliography are added to every document automatically and are not editable.
- The list of normative and bibliographic references are automatically added when a reference is added in the document.
- To reference an external document (ISO/IEC/CEN/CENELEC standard, other standard or book/journal reference) in the document:
- Place the cursor in the appropriate place. Go to the REFERENCE tab, click on Link to reference and select either Normative reference or a Bibliographic reference.
- Search and select an ISO/IEC/CEN/CENELEC standard by filtering and searching from the standards catalogue
- OR
- Search and select from an Existing reference (that has been referenced elsewhere in the document
Please note
- ISO, IEC, CEN and CENELEC standards can be added by searching and filtering in the standard catalogue.
- Standards from other sources or book/journal references have to be typed in manually.
- You only have to add a reference once, you can then reuse it in other places of your document by choosing Select existing.
- The clause: Normative referencescannot be deleted.
- For normative references, the standard reference text will be inserted in the text.
- For Bibliographic references the [number] of the reference will be added automatically.
- In addition, since version 3.1.0 of OSD platform, bibliographic references of ISO, IEC, CEN, and CENELEC and Oher standards will also include the label of the reference. Bibliographic references of type "Other" will only include the reference number
2 Reference to other standards
- To add a reference to another standard, select the reference type Other standard. The reference will be added automatically to the Normative reference clause or Bibliography.
3 Other references (books, journals, websites)
- For books, journals or websites, simply provide the title of the reference. The title will be automatically added to the Normative reference clause or the Bibliography.
4 Modify references
- To modify a normative reference: go to the Normative references clause. To modify a bibliographic reference, go to the Bibliography clause:
- Click on the Delete icon next to the reference
- Click on the Continue button in the pop-up message that appears
- Select the clause or sub-clause where it is referred and click on the Replace button
- Now choose a new reference to replace the existing one, click on the Select button, and then click on the Replace button
- Click on the Close button.
5 Delete references
- To delete a normative reference from the Normative references clause.
To delete a bibliographic reference, go to the Bibliography clause:
- Click on the Delete icon next to the reference
- Click on the Continue button in the pop-up message that appears
- Select the clause or sub-clause where it is referred (one-by-one) and click on the Delete button
- Now click on the Delete reference button
You can also delete a reference directly from the text by clicking on the reference, then clicking on delete.
6 review of broken references
To review if the document contains broken references, go to OVERVIEW tab
Select broken references.
7 Converting a bibliographic references to normative and vice versa
