Cite a standard, specification or data sheet from a company/institution but without an author

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As an electronic engineer I often cite technical standards, specifications or data sheets. They come usually from a specific company or institution but do not have a specific author. I like to have them in my bibliography using all the required information like title, institution, year, version/revision/edition and type ("whitepaper", "data sheet", "standard" etc.). Unfortunately I failed to come up with a general solution for this. Often I used the misc or manual type but it often does not include all information.

What would be a suitable way to handle such citations? I need to use the IEEEtran class with the vancover (or similar) style for my current journal paper, but I also would welcome a general solution using biblatex (which I use for my thesis).

I found the questions Bibtex entry to cite an article with unknown author? and Cite without author name which go into a similar direction, but offer no solution to my problem. — Martin Scharrer, Jan 27 '12 at 14:38
I'd go with techreport, but I guess it has almost the same fields of either misc or manual. :( — Paulo Cereda, Jan 27 '12 at 14:54
JabRef offers the entrytype standard, see: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8817/how-to-cite-omg-specifications — matth, Jan 27 '12 at 15:20

sergej · Answer 1 · 2014-05-02T15:48:23.790

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With biblatex I use manual:

@manual{nxp:tja1043,
    organization  = "NXP Semiconductors",
    title         = "High-speed CAN transceiver",
    number        = "TJA1043",
    year          =  2013,
    month         =  4,    
    note          = "Rev. 3"
}

@manual{infineon:TLE4473GV55-2,
    organization  = "Infineon Technologies AG",
    title         = "Dual Low Dropout Voltage Regulator",
    number        = "TLE 4473 GV55-2",
    year          =  2008,
    month         =  10,
    note          = "Rev. 1.2"
}

@manual{freescale:33879A,
    organization  = "Freescale Semiconductor",
    title         = "Configurable Octal Serial Switch
                    with Open Load Detect Current Disable",
    year          =  2012,
    month         =  6,
    number        = "MC33879",
    note          = "Rev. 10.0"
}

referenced documents

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answered May 02 '14 at 15:02

sergej

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When doing this, the number doesn't appear for me. – Charles Clayton Nov 28 '16 at 03:33
@CharlesClayton: That's probably due to your bibliographystyle. Try using \bibliographystyle{plain}. – stefanbschneider Mar 05 '17 at 11:47
I had to use author instead of organization for it to show up. – rluks Nov 27 '17 at 11:04

yannisl · Answer 2 · 2012-01-27T20:54:19.630

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With JabRef I use misc or standard. The standards body is normally typed out fully, rather than abbreviated:

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In the building industry sometimes, specifications provide a list of standards.

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answered Jan 27 '12 at 20:48

yannisl

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Could you also post the bibtex code for such an entry. Thanks. – Martin Scharrer May 27 '12 at 20:16
@MartinScharrer You mean the standards or the entries on top? I will check my computer at work and dig it out to-morrow. The standards is just a tabular. – yannisl May 27 '12 at 20:40
@YiannisLazarides If you got it somewhere, the BibTeX code would be appreciated :) – benregn Apr 15 '13 at 12:57
Random question: on what kind of OS did you make the screenshot? It clearly is a TNR variant but it looks so... oddly good. – henry Aug 15 '14 at 11:36

Adzi B · Answer 3 · 2021-11-16T21:30:12.353

As commented on a previous answer, the number field would not show up using the @manual entry type (with \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} using Texmaker v5.0.4 & MiKTeX v21.7 on Windows 10). A workaround for this, however, is to use the Address field for the component number, as this places the component number in the correct position, and with the correct text styling as according to "IEEE Citation Guidelines".

EDIT: I have just realised that the organisation should be at the start of the citation, this could be solved by entering the name of the organisation into the Author field, and then ensuring that it is enclosed within double curly braces (e.g. author = {{Texas Instruments}}). This would produce an output identical to the example in the guidelines linked above.

@Mensch thank you, I'm glad I could give back something, this whole SE has been an invaluable resource as a university student :) — Adzi B, Nov 16 '21 at 21:49

Cite a standard, specification or data sheet from a company/institution but without an author

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