Journal abbreviation: Dental clinics of North America

The abbreviation of the journal title "Dental clinics of North America" is "Dent. Clin. N. Am.". 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
DentalDent.matches the stem "denta-"
clinicsClin.matches the stem "clinic-"
ofRule 4.3: prepositions shall be omitted from title abbreviations.
NorthN.matches the word "North in the term North America"
AmericaAm.matches the word "America in the term North America"

Abbreviation systems

The abbreviation system known as ISO 4 is a standardized approach by the International Organization for Standardization for shortening journal titles. This uniform method ensures that journal titles are both consistent and easily recognizable in scholarly communication.

Journal title abbreviations are divided into ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for broad disciplines, 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 titleDental clinics of North America
AbbreviationDent. Clin. N. Am.
ISSN (print)1554-1959
ISSN (online)NA
NLM catalogNA

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