Journal abbreviation: Government information quarterly

The abbreviation of the journal title "Government information quarterly" is "Gov. Inf. Q.". 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
GovernmentGov.matches the stem "government-"
informationInf.matches the word "information"
quarterlyQ.matches the word "quarterly"

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.

The abbreviation of journal titles follows ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for an array of subjects, NLM (National Library of Medicine) for biomedical sciences, and CASSI (CAS Source Index) for chemistry and related disciplines.

About the journal

Full journal titleGovernment information quarterly
AbbreviationGov. Inf. Q.
ISSN (print)0740-624X
ISSN (online)1872-9517
NLM catalog8502519

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