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

Keep hyphens in surnames.

Estelle Palmer-Canton becomes Palmer-Canton E

Ahmed El-Assmy becomes El-Assmy A

Keep particles, such as O', D', and L'.

Alan D. O'Brien becomes O'Brien AD

James O. L'Esperance becomes L'Esperance JO

U. S'adeh becomes S'adeh U

Omit all other punctuation in surnames.

Charles A. St. James becomes St James CA

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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 Contributions to Books Vancouver Style

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Rules #9 for Author/Editor (required) for Contributions to Books Vancouver Style: Options for author names

Examples for Author/Editor (required) for Contributions to Books Vancouver Style