ISO and Other Standards for Journals

Delgado López-Cózar E, Ruíz-Pérez R, Jiménez-Contreras E.
La edición de revistas científicas. Directrices, criterios y modelos de evaluación
(November 2006)

The (very large) pdf file can be found online by searching the net on the title, or at
http://biblioteca.cchs.csic.es/docs/Fecyt%5B1%5D.pdf

The file (which includes several checklists to facilitate evaluation and trouble-shooting) can be downloaded for free.

Karen Shashok
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Is there an English version of this file?

Toni McCallum Pardey
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The manual on standardization I mentioned is available only in Spanish, but if you go to the checklist (the last 20 pages or so of the .pdf file), you'll see the authority for each standard listed in the left-hand column.

Many of the standards listed are ISO standards (International Standardization Organization), but the list also includes as "standards" many recommendations issued by the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), the UK Serials Group (UKSG), professional organizations such as the Americal Medical Association, American Chemical Society or American Psychological Association, the ICMJE, and (of course!) WAME.

The reference list just before the checklist in the manual may be worth consulting since many of the references cited are in English.

The text of all the standards or recommendations listed in the checklist is in English, but unfortunately the actual texts of ISO standards (available in English and French) are not open access (and are, in fact, rather expensive). The ISO standards for information and documentation are prepared by TC (Technical Committee) 46. Check http://www.collectionscanada.ca/iso/tc46sc9/ for more information.

National standards (often based on translations of ISO standards) are usually available in the local language, so it may be worthwhile to investigate what national standards are available in each country for serial publications (probably to be found in standards for information and documentation, unless the national standardization institution has departed from ISO's way of organizing topics).

An older guide in English to ISO standards that apply to scientific and technical journals appeared here:

Delgado López-Cózar E, Ruiz Pérez R.
A model for assessing compliance of scientific journals with international standards.
Libri.
1995;45:145-159.

Karen