Specific Rules #2 for Author Affiliation (optional) to Citing Entire Reports Vancouver Style: Abbreviations in affiliations

Abbreviate commonly used words in affiliations, if desired. Follow all abbreviated words with a period.

Examples:

Acad. for Academy

Assoc. for Association

Co. for Company

Coll. for College

Corp. for Corporation

Dept. for Department

Div. for Division

Inst. for Institute or Institution

Soc. for Society

Univ. for University

See Appendix C for more abbreviations of commonly used English words.

Abbreviate names of US states and Canadian provinces using their official two-letter abbreviations. See Appendix E for a list of these.

Abbreviate names of countries outside of the US and Canada using the two-letter ISO country code, if desired. See Appendix D for codes of selected countries.

Be consistent. If you abbreviate a word in one reference in a list of references, abbreviate the same word in all references.

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Specific Rules #3: Organizational names for affiliations not in English

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Specific Rules #5: Authors from more than one organization

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