ISBD:

Abbreviation for International Standard Bibliographic Description, prepared by the Working Group on the General International Standard Bibliographic Description set up by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Committee on Cataloguing (London, IFLA International Office for UBC, 1977). The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (second edition) are based on the ISBD general framework for the description of library materials, including the order of elements in the catalog entry and prescribed punctuation.