Citing policy guidelines?

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#1

I frequently want to add policy guideline documents from various professional organizations to my Paperpile, but I haven’t found the perfect way to categorize these yet. I access them via websites, but they’re not really websites. They haven’t been peer-reviewed or published in journals or presented at conferences, and they’re not really “technical reports.” They’re also not “unpublished,” because they’re clearly distribitued by these organizations. I guess they’re “miscellaneous,” but I wish there were a better category.

Example: https://www.ama-assn.org/ssl3/ecomm/PolicyFinderForm.pl?site=www.ama-assn.org&uri=/resources/html/PolicyFinder/policyfiles/HnE/H-120.949.HTM (American Medical Association, some random policy)

Thanks!

#2

Thanks for positing. We are planning to add the subtype “Guideline” to the item type “Report”. Citation requirements seem similar for guidelines and reports, so that seems like a good fit.

#3

Sounds like that will work nicely, thanks!