How to cite ISO standards? I am currently writing my PhD thesis and several times I cite various ISO standards. I am unsure what the correct way to format the bibliography entry for such documents is.

Currently I am doing something like:


  ISO (1997). ISO 4287 Geometrical Product Specifications (GPS) – Surface texture: Profile
  method – Terms, definitions and surface texture parameters.


I'm using an author-year style so the entries normally look like 


  Author (year) Title, Journal/publisher


Is there a better way to format this?
check out this blog entry on Citing ISO Standards or this site on Bibliographic Citation Standards and Schemes
As you can see there is no definitive answer to you question.

Maybe you ask your thesis advisor.