Journal abbreviation: Pakistan development review

The abbreviation of the journal title "Pakistan development review" is "Pak. Dev. Rev.". 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
PakistanPak.matches the stem "Pakistan-"
developmentDev.matches the stem "develop-"
reviewRev.matches the stem "review-"

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 titlePakistan development review
AbbreviationPak. Dev. Rev.
ISSN (print)0030-9729
ISSN (online)NA
NLM catalog9878461

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