Journal abbreviation: Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica

The abbreviation of the journal title "Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica" is "Acta Ophthalmol. Scand.". 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
ActaActaNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
ophthalmologicaOphthalmol.matches the stem "ophthalmolog-"
ScandinavicaScand.matches the stem "scandinavi-"

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 titleActa ophthalmologica Scandinavica
AbbreviationActa Ophthalmol. Scand.
ISSN (print)1395-3907
ISSN (online)1600-0420
NLM catalog9507578

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