Australian Standards
This section of FedCite refers to standards retrieved from the Standards Australia website. Other industry standards references may use a variant on the Web pages section of FedCite.
In-text citations
Paraphrasing
Residential timber-framed construction techniques are … (Standards Australia, 2010).
Standards Australia (2010) claims that …
Direct quote
Place direct quotes between double quotation marks " " and provide the page number(s).
New residential timber frames "have been simplified for non-cyclonic areas of Australia due to …" (Standards Australia, 2010, p. 6).
Reference list
Provide both the title and Standard number in italics, and shorten the URL to the homepage.
Print standards
Template
Author. (Year). Standard title (Standard number).
Example
Standards Australia. (1994). Information processing - text and office systems - office document architecture (ODA) and interchange format: part 10: formal specifications (AS 3951.10:1994).
Notes on style
- Provide the title (in italics), followed by the Standard number in round brackets.
- As the publisher is the same as the author, the publisher field can be omitted to avoid repetition.
Online standards
Template
Author. (Year). Standard title (Standard number). URL
Example
Standards Australia. (2010). Residential timber framed construction – simplified - non-cyclonic areas: formal specifications (AS 1684.4:2010). http://www.saiglobal.com
Notes on style
- Provide the title (in italics), followed by the Standard number in round brackets.
- Include the homepage URL of the database from which the standard was accessed.