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This list shows the abbreviations used for journal titles as cited works. Copy the abbreviated (boldface) title from this list and paste it in the Cited Work field on the Cited Reference Search page.

The appropriate journal abbreviations for American Medical Association (AMA) style citations can be found by looking in the journal record in the NLM Catalog in PubMed. If your title is not in the NLM Catalog, the AMA Manual of Style 11th Edition offers advice for abbreviating journal titles in Chapter 13.10 "Abbreviations: Names of Journals."

Journal Abbreviations are common among journals in the sciences. Since words and abbreviations used in journal titles are from a variety of languages, journal abbreviations can sometimes be difficult to work with. The following resources provide help in identifying the full journal title for a given abbreviation, and for determining the correct journal abbreviation for a given journal title.

Try a search in the library catalog, Search It, by doing an exact title search. The results may include more than one title, for example a search of 'j ecol' produces Journal of Ecology, African Journal of Ecology, Journal of Ecology and Environment, and more. If you are uncertain of the exact title of the abbreviated journal ask for help at the reference desk or from the chat service.

CAS provides abstracts of articles, and indexes bibliographic, substance, and reaction information from key scientific journals such as those shown below. This information may appear within days of article publication.

The journal list below is sorted alphabetically by the full title and also includes the journal abbreviation and CODEN. This is not the full list of publications covered by CAS, and the list is subject to change.

This change is intended. Some users prefer abbreviated and some full journal names. We thus opted for the option which contains the most information (= full name). However, we plan to implement that cleanup operations can be invoked directly after import and in this way it would be possible to automatically convert to abbreviated journal names.

I am new to this forum, in fact, I statrted using EndNote couple weeks ago. As much as I like the software, I have encountered few problems. I will start with the most urgent one, so here is the question:

I tried to look for answers hoping if someone had already brought up this issue, but could not find any hint that would lead to a success. I tried to update my Term List according to this thread posted earlier, but did not succeed either. Can anyone please suggest what to do in order to have ALL MY REFERNCES PROPERLY ABBREVIATED THEIR JOURNAL TITLES???

By the way, did you type the full journal title by yourself, or imported through filter? If you typed manually, check spell error or some extra spaces you might have missed. To be able to abbreviate journal tiltes automatically, you need to have full title in the Endnote entry and Term list that exactly defines the abbreviation type for the given full name.

Thanks for your time to respond to my question. I checked the points that both of you have raised and everything was OK, except the problem still was there. Eventually, I had to call the customer support in USA to solve this problem. Yes, John East did suggest correctly to replace the term list, but I their website failed to provide instructions how to do so. Anyway, after I solved this problem I made a quick note for myself how to do this and I am attaching it to this thread so whoever encounters the similar difficulty I hope will benefit from this.

The Journals Term List is a necessary component of EndNote program that enables to automatically update the journal names as well as abbreviation features that are predefined in Term List files (usually saved in the directory C:\Program Files\EndNote X2\Terms Lists). In order to successfully update the journal terms list the following steps must be taken, so that the program will recognize the updated list: If you are updating the journal list terms of an already built library, make sure you back up the original file. When building a new library or editing the existing library you may realize that some citations are being abbreviated accordingly, while the others are not after importing references. The reason for such inconsistency is that the Term List does not have proper Journals Term Lists set up. To fix this:

3. Press OK button. Then press Import List button and navigate to C:\Program Files\EndNote X2\Terms Lists directory and select the desired term list. Press Open button to confirm the selection and press OK button in a message dialog prompted afterwards. Press Close button of Term Lists window. Now when you click on the references that did not use the journal title abbreviations previously, they will now show up in abbreviated format.

The following are a list of things you can try to troubleshoot when the journal titles are not abbreviated. For additional support please contact the library at medli...@ucf.edu, or your personal librarian.

Fourth: Perform a field codes clean-up; instructions available at -Problematic-field-codes-causing-jumping-cursor-the-range-cannot-be-deleted-or-other-problems-while-formatting?language=en_US

There are many sources to find the full title of an abbreviated journal title in the sciences. A simple Google search may be all you need to find the full name but if that does not work, here are some resources:

This fact sheet discusses the rules currently used by NLM to construct title abbreviations for journals indexed in PubMed. Users should keep in mind that policies and procedures have changed over time at NLM, and they may encounter older title abbreviations that are not established according to the rules described below.

As of March 1, 2007, NLM generally establishes title abbreviations based on the form used by the ISSN Centre as their abbreviated key title, whenever this is available, editing only for format as described below:

The ISSN Centre constructs abbreviations generally using the same principles that NLM used prior to March 2007. The title abbreviation is based on the title proper of the journal at its first issue. The title proper includes part designations and section titles, if present, but does not include subtitle or parallel title (titles presented in other languages) information. See examples 1-2.

Each word in the title proper is compared against a master list of abbreviations issued by the ISSN International Centre. If the word or word root is found in the master list, that abbreviation is used. If a word is not found in the ISSN list, the word appears in the title abbreviation as it appears in the title proper.

As noted above, a fundamental principle of title abbreviation assignment is that each title abbreviation must be unique. If two journals have the same title, or have titles which, when the above procedures are followed, would result in the same title abbreviation, one or more qualifying elements are added to the title abbreviation to make it unique. The original city of publication (using the approved abbreviation for a place name, if one exists) is the preferred qualifier. Other elements that may be added are:

If the title proper of the journal undergoes a major change, requiring the creation of a new bibliographic record for the journal, a new title abbreviation is assigned for the new journal. The guidelines for determining major changes in title proper are governed by the cataloging guidelines, Resource Description and Access (RDA).

You will find the full title is South African Medical Journal. It is not necessary to use the Afrikaans title (Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Geneeskunde). The title is never abbreviated in any language other than English, so you will never refer to this journal as the SATG).

Notice that there is an NLM Title Abbreviation, which is S Afr Med J (no full stops after the abbreviations). This is the style usually preferred at Wits, if you do not use the more common verbal abbreviation of SAMJ.

Note that not every journal title has an abreviation. If the title consists of one word, or short words, then the abbreviation is usually the same as the full journal title, eg. the abbreviation of the full journal title Circulation is still Circulation. However, the abbreviated title of Heart, Lung & Circulation is Heart Lung Circ.

The more you use the journals, the more familiar you will find the journal titles and their abbreviations. It is important for you to become familiar with journal titles and their abbreviations as soon as possible, otherwise you will struggle with the language of the literature, just as you would with medical terminology.

Note in the example on the left, the abbreviation for the South African Medical Journal can be either SAMJ or S Afr Med J. If you are unsure which to use, ask your librarians or your tutors, or use the full journal title until you become accustomed to which abbreviation to use.

Very Important: Journal title spelling is extremely important, so note that Paediatrics can also be spelled Pediatrics, Gynaecology as Gynecology, etc. The spelling will alert you to whether the journal is a British, European or American publication, as sometimes journals have the same or similar titles, but are published by different publishers from different countries.

Some disciplines require researchers to use abbreviated forms of journal titles in their publications. EndNote handles this problem by allowing you to import term lists that store both the full titles of journals and the corresponding abbreviations. Journal term lists provide the full title of a journal and up to 3 different abbreviations.