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How to cite the Flintmere standards.

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What to cite.

Cite the pinned URL, not the rolling one.

• Use the pinned form — /food/v1.0/ — which is immutable. The rolling alias /food/v1/ tracks whatever the current release happens to be, so a citation pointing at it will drift out from under you.
• Give the publication date of the version you read, not the date you read it.
• When quoting a specific field, cite its section anchor — for example /food/v1.0/#field-allergen.
• If you quote the document, quote its scope statement too. It bounds what the document claims.

Format examples.

Food catalog standard, v1.0.

APA 7

Flintmere Regulatory Affairs. (2026, August 23). Food catalog standard, version 1.0. Flintmere Regulatory Affairs. https://standards.flintmere.com/food/v1.0/

Chicago (author-date)

Flintmere Regulatory Affairs. 2026. "Food Catalog Standard, Version 1.0." Flintmere Regulatory Affairs. August 23, 2026. https://standards.flintmere.com/food/v1.0/.

IEEE

Flintmere Regulatory Affairs, "Food catalog standard, version 1.0," Flintmere Regulatory Affairs, Aug. 23, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://standards.flintmere.com/food/v1.0/

MLA 9

Flintmere Regulatory Affairs. Food Catalog Standard, Version 1.0. Flintmere Regulatory Affairs, 23 August 2026, standards.flintmere.com/food/v1.0/.

BibTeX

@misc{flintmere2026foodv10,
  title  = {Food Catalog Standard, Version 1.0},
  author = {{Flintmere Regulatory Affairs}},
  year   = {2026},
  month  = {8},
  url    = {https://standards.flintmere.com/food/v1.0/},
  note   = {Maintained by Flintmere Regulatory Affairs (council seat #39); half-yearly publication cadence}
}

Change-log entries cite the same way, with the entry permalink as the URL and the entry’s own publication date. Every page on this site carries a “Cite this page” control that fills these five forms in for whatever you are reading.

DOI status.

There isn’t one yet.

DOI assignment is deferred — we are not currently a CrossRef or DataCite member. URL stability is guaranteed instead by the version contract described at /about: pinned URLs never change meaning and stay live indefinitely. We will register DOIs when citation volume justifies the commitment.

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