Journal abbreviation: Foreign service journal

The abbreviation of the journal title "Foreign service journal" is "Foreign Serv. J.". 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
ForeignForeignNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
serviceServ.matches the stem "servic-"
journalJ.matches the word "journal"

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 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 titleForeign service journal
AbbreviationForeign Serv. J.
ISSN (print)0146-3543
ISSN (online)NA
NLM catalogNA

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