Please cite the NASA STI Program in your work if you incorporate/use the NASA Thesaurus. You may copy and paste any one of the standard citations below (be sure to change ‘SKOS’ to the file format you used):
APA
NASA STI Program. (2012). NASA thesaurus [Data file]. Retrieved from https://sti.nasa.gov/nasa-thesaurus/#thesaurus
MLA
NASA STI Program. NASA Thesaurus. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012. SKOS.
Chicago
NASA STI Program. NASA Thesaurus. SKOS. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012
Abstract
The NASA Thesaurus contains the authorized NASA subject terms used to index and retrieve materials in the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). The scope of this controlled vocabulary includes not only aerospace engineering, but all supporting areas of engineering and physics, the natural space sciences (astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science), Earth sciences, and the biological sciences. The NASA Thesaurus contains over 18,400 subject terms, 4,300 definitions, and more than 4,500 USE cross-references.