Journal abbreviation: Surgical oncology clinics of North America
The abbreviation of the journal title "Surgical oncology clinics of North America" is "Surg. Oncol. Clin. N. Am.". 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgical | Surg. | matches the stem "surgic-" |
| oncology | Oncol. | matches the stem "oncolog-" |
| clinics | Clin. | matches the stem "clinic-" |
| of | Rule 4.3: prepositions shall be omitted from title abbreviations. | |
| North | N. | matches the word "North in the term North America" |
| America | Am. | matches the word "America in the term North America" |
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 include ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for a wide range of subjects, 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 | Surgical oncology clinics of North America |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | Surg. Oncol. Clin. N. Am. |
| ISSN (print) | 1055-3207 |
| ISSN (online) | 1558-5042 |
| NLM catalog | 9211789 |