Specific Rules #1 for Journal Title (required) for Journal Articles Vancouver Style: Abbreviation rules for journal titles

Abbreviate and capitalize significant words in a journal title and omit other words, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. For example: of, the, at, in, and, L'.

The Journal of Biocommunication becomes J Biocommun.

La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica becomes Pediatr Med Chir.

L'Orthodontie Francaise becomes Orthod Fr.

A list of the abbreviations for common English words used in journal titles is in Appendix A. Other sources for title-word abbreviations are: the List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE, the PubMed Journals database, and the Appendix B for non-NLM sources.

Do not abbreviate journal titles that consist of a single word or titles written in a character-based language such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Virology. remains Virology.

Kansenshogaku Zasshi. remains Kansenshogaku Zasshi.

Do not include journal subtitles as part of the abbreviated title.

JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association becomes JAMA.

Injury Prevention: Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention becomes Inj Prev.

Omit any punctuation in a title.

Journal of Neuro-Oncology becomes J Neurooncol.

Drug-Nutrient Interactions becomes Drug Nutr Interact.

Women's Health becomes Womens Health.

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics becomes Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod

Some bibliographies and online databases show a place of publication after a journal title, such as Clin Toxicol (Phila). This practice is used to show that two or more journal titles with the same name reside in a library collection or database; the name of the city where the journal is published distinguishes the titles. The city is usually shown in abbreviated format following the same rules used for words in journal titles, as Phila for Philadelphia in the example above. If you use a bibliography or database such as PubMed to verify your reference and a place name is included, you may keep it if you wish.

See also Construction of National Library of Medicine Title Abbreviations.

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Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition. Chapter 1: Journals

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