W 1901 powołano National Bureau of Standards. Od 1988 zm. nazwy na National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Główna siedziba znajduje się w Gaithersburg w stanie Maryland. Bezpośredni nadzór nad agencją sprawuje Departament Handlu Stanów Zjednoczonych (Department of Commerce).

LCN'96

Kp. Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards. Section A, Physics and Chemistry. - Vol. 64 (1960).

Kp. Chemistry of cement. Vol. 1 / United States Department of Commerce. National Bureau of Standards. - Washington, 1962.

Kp. Bureau of Standards Journal of Research / U. S. Department of Commerce.- Vol.3 (1929)

Single-photon: detectors, applications, and measurement methods / ed. by Alan Migdall and Jonathan Dowling. - Abingdon, 2004. Podtyt.:(Proceedings of NIST-ARDA Workshop on Single-photon: detectors, applications, and measurement methods, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, 31- March - 1 April 2003)

National Institute of Standards and Technology, 21.10.2013 http://www.nist.gov/

Research Paper No. ... / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Standards. - No. 215 (1930)

Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards. Section B, Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. - Vol. 64B no. 1 (Jan./Mar. 1960)

Publications of the Bureau of Standards. - Washington, 1922.