standardiviite

Standardiviite is a term used in Finnish bibliographic and academic contexts to denote a citation to a normative document or standard. It designates a reference to a standard such as an ISO, EN, or a national standard (SFS) rather than to a scholarly article or book. The primary purpose is to identify, with precision, the exact standard that governs procedures, specifications, or test methods cited in a work.

In practice, a standardiviite typically includes the issuing organization or standard series, the standard number, and the year of issue or the last edition; some styles also include a short title or scope. Examples include standardiviite: ISO 9001:2015 or SFS-EN 13402:2008. The exact formatting and allowed variants vary by institution or publisher, and some citation styles treat standards as separate bibliographic items rather than embedded references.

In Finnish scholarly work, standardiviite appears in bibliographies and footnotes to guide readers to normative documents that underpin data, methodologies, or compliance claims. Library catalogs in Finland often store standard references in dedicated fields or map them to standard numbers in external registries. While widely used in Finnish practice, the concept is not uniformly standardized internationally, where many citation styles prefer treating standards as documents with their own bibliographic records.

See also: bibliographic reference, standards organization, ISO, SFS, citation style.