Journal abbreviation: Journal of China Medical University

The abbreviation of the journal title "Journal of China Medical University" is "J. China Med. Univ.". 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
JournalJ.matches the word "journal"
ofRule 4.3: prepositions shall be omitted from title abbreviations.
ChinaChinaNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
MedicalMed.matches the word "medical"
UniversityUniv.matches the stem "universit-"

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 titleJournal of China Medical University
AbbreviationJ. China Med. Univ.
ISSN (print)0258-4646
ISSN (online)NA
NLM catalogNA

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