Journal abbreviation: BMC emergency medicine

The abbreviation of the journal title "BMC emergency medicine" is "BMC Emerg. Med.". 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
BMCBMCRule 4.4: Acronyms shall be retained in the abbreviated title.
emergencyEmerg.matches the word "emergency"
medicineMed.matches the word "medic"

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.

ISO, or International Organization for Standardization, is a journal title abbreviation system for multiple fields. NLM (National Library of Medicine) abbreviations are used in biomedical sciences, while CASSI (CAS Source Index) abbreviations apply to chemistry and associated fields.

About the journal

Full journal titleBMC emergency medicine
AbbreviationBMC Emerg. Med.
ISSN (print)NA
ISSN (online)1471-227X
NLM catalog100968543

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