Journal abbreviation: Cold Spring Harbor protocols

The abbreviation of the journal title "Cold Spring Harbor protocols" is "Cold Spring Harb. Protoc.". 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
ColdColdNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
SpringSpringNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
HarborHarb.matches the stem "harbor-"
protocolsProtoc.matches the stem "protocol-"

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.

Journal title abbreviations include ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for a wide range of subjects, NLM (National Library of Medicine) for biomedical and life sciences, and CASSI (CAS Source Index) for chemistry and related fields.

About the journal

Full journal titleCold Spring Harbor protocols
AbbreviationCold Spring Harb. Protoc.
ISSN (print)1940-3402
ISSN (online)1559-6095
NLM catalog101524530

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