Websites and web resources

• CIPM Mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) of national measurement standards and of calibration and measurement certificates issued by national metrology institutes (www.bipm.org/en/cipm-mra/)
• ISO online browsing platform – access ISO standards, terms and definitions (www.iso.org/obp/ui/)
• VIM Definitions with Informative Annotations, JCGM-WG2 (https://jcgm.bipm.org/vim/en/index.html)

Standards

• BIPM, IEC, IFCC, ILAC, ISO, IUPAC, IUPAP, OIML. JCGM 200:2012 (JCGM 200:2008 with minor corrections), International vocabulary of metrology – Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM3) (www.bipm.org) (Earlier version printed as ISO Guide 99:2007 (www.iso.org, link to free version https://www.iso.org/resources/publicly-available-resources.html)
• ISO 80000-1:2022. Quantities and units – Part 1: General (www.iso.org)

Guides

• V. Barwick (Ed) Eurachem Guide: Terminology in analytical measurement – Introduction to VIM3 (2^nd ed. 2023). ISBN 978-0-948926-40-2 (www.eurachem.org)
• A beginner’s guide to measurement, v3, Good practice guide no. 118, NPL, 2010, ISSN: 1368-6550 (www.npl.co.uk)
• The International System of Units (SI), 9th Edition, 2019 (v2.01, December 2022) (www.bipm.org)

Books

• Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2^nd ed. (the ‘Gold Book’). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). Online version (2019-) created by S. J. Chalk. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. (https://goldbook.iupac.org/)
• IUPAC Quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry (‘Green Book’), 3rd Edition, 2007, ISBN 978-0-85404-433-7 (https://iupac.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IUPAC-GB3-2012-2ndPrintingPDFsearchable.pdf)
• Compendium of terminology in analytical chemistry (‘Orange Book), 4th edition, D. Brynn Hibbert (Ed), The Royal Society of Chemistry (2023), ISBN (print): 978-1-78262-947-4, https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788012881 (note that material on metrological and quality concepts is published as an IUPAC Recommendation – see Articles and reports section)

Leaflets

• Eurachem information leaflet
  • You talk, we understand – The way out of the tower of Babel [An introduction to measurement terminology] (2015, updated 2023) (www.eurachem.org)
• AMC Technical Briefs, RSC,
  (www.rsc.org/membership-and-community/connect-with-others/join-scientific-networks/subject-communities/analytical-science-community/amc/technical-briefs):
  • AMC TB 86-2019 Revision of the International System of Units (Background paper)
  • AMC TB 76-2016, Chemical metrology
  • AMC TB 19-2005, Terminology – the key to understanding analytical science. Part 2: Sampling and sample preparation
  • AMC TB 13-2003, Terminology – the key to understanding analytical science. Part 1: Accuracy, precision and uncertainty

Articles and reports

• D. Brynn Hibbert, E-H Korte, U. Örnemark, Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021), Pure Appl. Chem., 2021, 93 (9), 997-1048, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819 
• H. Goenaga Infante, J. Warren, J. Chalmers, G. Dent, J. L. Todoli, J. Collingwood, N. Telling, M. Resano, A. Limbeck, T. Schoenberger, D. B. Hibbert, A. LeGresley, K. Adams, D. Craston, Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019), Pure Appl. Chem., 2021, 93 (6), 647-776, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203
• Z. Chai, A. Chatt, P. Bode, J. Kučera, R. Greenberg, D. B. Hibbert, Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020), Pure Appl. Chem., 2021, 93 (1), 69-111, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302
• J. M. Pingarrón, J. Labuda, J. Barek, C. M. A. Brett, M. F. Camões, M. Fojta, D. B. Hibbert, Terminology of electrochemical methods of analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2019), Pure Appl. Chem., 2020, 92 (4), 641-694, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2018-0109
• T. Takeuchi, A. J. McQuillan, A. Shard, A. E. Russell, D. B. Hibbert, Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020), Pure Appl. Chem., 2020, 92 (11), 1781-1860, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0404
• J. Labuda, R. P. Bowater, M. Fojta, G. Gauglitz, Z. Glatz, I. Hapala, J. Havliš, F. Kilar, A. Kilar, L. Malinovská, H. M. M. Sirén, P. Skládal, F. Torta, M. Valachovič, M. Wimmerová, Z. Zdráhal, D. B. Hibbert, Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018), Pure App. Chem., 2018, 90 (7), 1121-1198, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1120
• M. F. Camões, G. D. Christian, D. B. Hibbert, Mass and volume in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Technical Report), Pure Appl. Chem., 2018, 90 (3), 563-603, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2017-0410
• T. A. Maryutina, E. Y. Savonina, P. S. Fedotov, R. M. Smith, H. Siren, D. B. Hibbert, Terminology of separation methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2017), Pure Appl. Chem., 2018, 90 (1), 181-231, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2017-0111
• C. Poole, Z. Mester, M. Miró, S. Pedersen-Bjergaard, J. Pawliszyn, Extraction for analytical scale sample preparation (IUPAC Technical Report), Pure Appl. Chem., 2016, 88 (7), 649-687, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0705
• D.B. Hibbert, Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016), Pure Appl. Chem., 2016, 88 (4), 407-443, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605
• T. Lever, P. Haines, J. Rouquerol, E. L. Charsley, P. Van Eckeren, D. J. Burlett, ICTAC nomenclature of thermal analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2014), Pure Appl. Chem., 2014, 86 (4), 545-553, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2012-0609
• K. K. Murray, R. K. Boyd, M. N. Eberlin, J. G. Langley, L. Li, Y. Naito, Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013), Pure Appl. Chem., 2013, 85 (7), 1515-1609, https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06

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