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

Keep prefixes in surnames.

Lama Al Bassit becomes Al Bassit L

Jiddeke M. van de Kamp becomes van de Kamp JM

Gerard de Pouvourville becomes de Pouvourville G

Keep compound surnames even if no hyphen appears.

Sergio Lopez Moreno becomes Lopez Moreno S

Jaime Mier y Teran becomes Mier y Teran J

Virginie Halley des Fontaines becomes Halley des Fontaines V

[If you cannot determine from the title page whether a surname is compound or is a combination of a middle name and a surname, look at the table of contents, the back of the title page (the copyright page), or elsewhere in the text for clarification.
For example, Elizabeth Scott Parker may be interpreted to be Parker ES or Scott Parker E.]

Ignore diacritics, accents, and special characters in names. To simplify rules for English-language publications, this rule ignores some conventions used in non-English languages.

– Treat letters marked with diacritics or accents as if they are not marked.

Å treated as A

Ø treated as O

Ç treated as C

Ł treated as L

à treated as a

ĝ treated as g

ñ treated as n

ü treated as u

– Treat two or more letters printed as a unit (ligated letters) as if they are two letters.

æ treated as ae

œ treated as oe

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

Related:

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