Journal abbreviation: Western Indian Ocean journal of marine science

The abbreviation of the journal title "Western Indian Ocean journal of marine science" is "West. Indian Ocean J. Mar. Sci.". 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
WesternWest.matches the stem "western-"
IndianIndianNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
OceanOceanNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
journalJ.matches the word "journal"
ofRule 4.3: prepositions shall be omitted from title abbreviations.
marineMar.matches the stem "marin-"
scienceSci.matches the stem "scienc-"

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 titleWestern Indian Ocean journal of marine science
AbbreviationWest. Indian Ocean J. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)0856-860X
ISSN (online)NA
NLM catalogNA

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