Journal abbreviation: Annals of plastic surgery
The abbreviation of the journal title "Annals of plastic surgery" is "Ann. Plast. 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.
| Title | Abbreviation | Word/Stem/Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Annals | Ann. | matches the stem "annal-" |
| of | Rule 4.3: prepositions shall be omitted from title abbreviations. | |
| plastic | Plast. | matches the stem "plasti-" |
| surgery | Surg. | 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.
Abbreviating journal titles involves ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for various fields, NLM (National Library of Medicine) for biomedical and life sciences, and CASSI (CAS Source Index) for chemistry and associated disciplines.
About the journal
| Full journal title | Annals of plastic surgery |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | Ann. Plast. Surg. |
| ISSN (print) | 0148-7043 |
| ISSN (online) | 1536-3708 |
| NLM catalog | 7805336 |