Journal abbreviation: Northern Scotland

The abbreviation of the journal title "Northern Scotland" is "North. Scotl.". 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
NorthernNorth.matches the word "northern"
ScotlandScotl.matches the word "Scotland"

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.

The abbreviation of journal titles follows ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for an array of subjects, NLM (National Library of Medicine) for biomedical sciences, and CASSI (CAS Source Index) for chemistry and related disciplines.

About the journal

Full journal titleNorthern Scotland
AbbreviationNorth. Scotl.
ISSN (print)0306-5278
ISSN (online)2042-2717
NLM catalog100969558

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