Journal abbreviation: Fauna of New Zealand
The abbreviation of the journal title "Fauna of New Zealand" is "Fauna N. Z.". 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 |
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Fauna | Fauna | No abbreviation listed in TWA. |
of | Rule 4.3: prepositions shall be omitted from title abbreviations. | |
New | N. | matches the word "New in the term New Zealand" |
Zealand | Z. | matches the word "Zealand in the term New Zealand" |
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 come in three primary forms: ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for general disciplines, NLM (National Library of Medicine) for biomedical and life sciences, and CASSI (CAS Source Index) for chemistry and associated fields.
About the journal
Full journal title | Fauna of New Zealand |
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Abbreviation | Fauna N. Z. |
ISSN (print) | 0111-5383 |
ISSN (online) | 1179-7193 |
NLM catalog | 101537661 |