Journal abbreviation: Minimally invasive surgery

The abbreviation of the journal title "Minimally invasive surgery" is "Minim. Invasive Surg.". It is the recommended abbreviation to be used for abstracting, indexing and referencing purposes and meets all criteria of the ISO 4 standard for abbreviating names of scientific journals.

Abbreviation rules

The table below outlines in detail the ISO 4 rules and matches to the ISSN maintained list of title word abbreviations (TWA) to derive the abbreviation.

TitleAbbreviationWord/Stem/Rule
MinimallyMinim.matches the word "minimally"
invasiveInvasiveNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
surgerySurg.matches the word "surgery"

Abbreviation systems

The International Organization for Standardization has developed the ISO 4 abbreviation system as a means of creating uniform abbreviations for journal titles. This allows researchers and academics to easily recognize and refer to journals in a consistent manner.

Journal title abbreviations can be classified into ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for general disciplines, NLM (National Library of Medicine) for biomedical and life sciences, and CASSI (CAS Source Index) for chemistry and related fields.

About the journal

Full journal titleMinimally invasive surgery
AbbreviationMinim. Invasive Surg.
ISSN (print)2090-1445
ISSN (online)2090-1453
NLM catalog101566870

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