General Rules for Article Type (optional) to Citing Conference Papers Vancouver Style

An article type alerts the user that the reference is to an abstract of a paper, not to the full paper.

Place [abstract] after the title of the paper.

Follow the bracketed article type with a period.

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

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