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Journal
Title Abbreviations
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| Journal titles
in bibliographic citations, except one-word titles, must be abbreviated
according to established |
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The abbreviations used in Zoological Record are correct, as are those
shown in the printed lists BIOSIS |
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Sources (shelved with Biological Abstracts) and List of Journals
Indexed in Index Medicus (i.e. |
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the rules for abbreviating journal titles are as follows. |
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Know the full title of the journal--some indexes and abstracts and databases
omit important words from titles. |
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Omit prepositions (for, from, in, of, on, to), articles (a, an, the), and
conjunctions (and). |
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Abbreviate nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. A list of standard abbreviations
is given in Scientific Style |
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Format (Council of Biology Editors Style Manual Committee 1994), page
744. |
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a. |
Leave enough of
each word to be recognizable. |
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J for Journal |
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Q for Quarterly |
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Z for Zeitschrift |
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b. |
Stop after a consonant;
if several consonants occur consecutively, stop after the last of them. |
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Biol for
Biology |
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Ann for Annals |
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Abstr for
Abstracts |
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| Exceptions: |
Sci for Science |
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Annu for
Annual |
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Do not abbreviate a proper noun as the first word of a title. |
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| Examples: |
Bangladesh
J Microbiol |
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Wilhelm
Roux's Arch Dev Biol |
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adjectival forms are abbreviated: |
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Afr J Med
Sci |
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Am J Nephrol |
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Do not abbreviate one-word titles. |
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| Examples: |
Virology |
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Nature |
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BioScience |
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