Journal abbreviation: U.S. healthcare

The abbreviation of the journal title "U.S. healthcare" is "US Healthc.". 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
U.S.USRule 4.4: Acronyms shall be retained in the abbreviated title.
healthcareHealthc.matches the word "healthcare"

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 titleU.S. healthcare
AbbreviationUS Healthc.
ISSN (print)1040-3973
ISSN (online)NA
NLM catalog8812252

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