Specific Rules #2 for Place of Publication (required) to Citing Conference Proceedings Vancouver Style: Non-US cities

Use the anglicized form of a city name, such as Rome for Roma and Moscow for Moskva. However, the name as found on the publication may always be used.

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

_ Treat letters marked with a diacritic or accent 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

Follow Canadian cities with a comma and the two-letter abbreviation for the name of the province (see Appendix E).

Montreal, QC

Ottawa, ON

Vancouver, BC

If the city is not well known or could be confused with another city of the same name, follow the city with the country name, either written in full or as the two-letter ISO country code (see Appendix D). Separate the country name or code from the city by a comma.

London

Rome

Paris

Madrid

but:

Malaga, Spain or Malaga, ES

Basel, Switzerland or Basel, CH

Oxford, England or Oxford, GB

As an option, use the country name or country code after all cities not in the US or Canada.

Según:

Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition. Chapter 3: Conference Publications

Related:

General Rules for Place of Publication (required) to Citing Conference Proceedings Vancouver Style

Specific Rules #1 for Place of Publication (required) to Citing Conference Proceedings Vancouver Style: Optional inclusion of institution where conference was held

Specific Rules #2 for Place of Publication (required) to Citing Conference Proceedings Vancouver Style: Non-US cities

Specific Rules #3 for Place of Publication (required) to Citing Conference Proceedings Vancouver Style: Multiple places of publication

Specific Rules #4 for Place of Publication (required) to Citing Conference Proceedings Vancouver Style: No place of publication can be found

Example Entries for Place of Publication (required) to Citing Conference Proceedings Vancouver Style