Journal abbreviation: World Health Organization technical report series

The abbreviation of the journal title "World Health Organization technical report series" is "World Health Organ. Tech. Rep. Ser.". 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
WorldWorldNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
HealthHealthNo abbreviation listed in TWA.
OrganizationOrgan.matches the stem "organiza-"
technicalTech.matches the stem "techni-"
reportRep.matches the word "report"
seriesSer.matches the word "series"

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 titleWorld Health Organization technical report series
AbbreviationWorld Health Organ. Tech. Rep. Ser.
ISSN (print)0512-3054
ISSN (online)1996-9139
NLM catalog7903212

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