Journal abbreviation: Rail international
The abbreviation of the journal title "Rail international" is "Rail Int.". 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rail | Rail | No abbreviation listed in TWA. |
| international | Int. | matches the stem "internation-" |
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 title | Rail international |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | Rail Int. |
| ISSN (print) | 0020-8442 |
| ISSN (online) | NA |
| NLM catalog | NA |