[Tex/LaTex] Difference between organization and institution when citing a standard

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I am using BibTeX and JabRef 2.10 and I would like to cite an ISO/IEC standard.

JabRef indicates that beside the key, the required fields for the entry type Standard are title, organization, and institution.

What is the difference between organization and institution? (And what do I have to put into which field?)

To me, these two fields sound like two different words for the same thing. And when reading this description of the BibTeX format, it says:

institution: The sponsoring institution of a technical report.

organization: The organization that sponsors a conference or that publishes a manual.

Which corroborates my impression that the two fields indicate the same piece of information – it is the entity that sponsors the work.

The only somewhat similar sounding question, How to cite a standard (ISO, etc.) in BibLaTeX?, does not mention the difference between these fields.

Best Answer

The BibLaTeX manual version 3.15 makes a clearer distinction:

institution

The name of a university or some other institution, depending on the entry type. Traditional BibTeX uses the fieldname school for theses, which is supported as an alias.

organization

The organization(s) that published a @manual or an @online resource, or sponsored a conference.