Specific Rules #4 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Degrees, titles, and honors before or after a personal name

Omit degrees, titles, and honors such as M.D. following a personal name.

James A. Reed, M.D., F.R.C.S. becomes Reed JA

Kristine Schmidt, Ph.D. becomes Schmidt K

Robert V. Lang, Major, US Army becomes Lang RV

Omit rank and honors such as Colonel or Sir that precede a name.

Sir Frances Hildebrand becomes Hildebrand F

Dr. Jane Eberhard becomes Eberhard J

Captain R.C. Williams becomes Williams RC

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

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General Rules for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style

Specific Rules #1 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Surnames with hyphens and other punctuation in them

Specific Rules #2 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Other surname rules

Specific Rules #3 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Given names containing punctuation, a prefix, a preposition, or particle

Specific Rules #4 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Degrees, titles, and honors before or after a personal name

Specific Rules #5 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Designations of rank in a family, such as Jr and III

Specific Rules #6 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Names in non-roman alphabets (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew) or character-based languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)

Specific Rules #7 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Non-English words for editor

Specific Rules #8 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Organizations as author/editor

Specific Rules #9 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: No author can be found

Specific Rules #10 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Options for author names

Examples for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style (2015/08/12)