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International standard which defines a uniform system for the abbreviation of serial titles
ISO 4
(
Information and documentation ? Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications
) is an
international standard
which defines a uniform system for the abbreviation of
serial publication
titles, i.e., titles of publications such as
scientific journals
that are published in regular installments.
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The
International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) has appointed the
ISSN International Centre
as the
registration authority
for ISO 4. It maintains the
List of Title Word Abbreviations
(
LTWA
), which contains standard abbreviations for words commonly found in serial titles. As of August 2017
[update]
, the standard's most recent update came in 1997,
[2]
when its third edition was released.
[3]
A major use of ISO 4 is to abbreviate the names of scientific journals using the LTWA. For instance, under ISO 4 standards, the
Journal of Biological Chemistry
is cited as
J. Biol. Chem.
, and the
Journal of Polymer Science Part A
should be cited as
J. Polym. Sci. A
(capitalization is not specified by the standard). The standard notes that "Full stops shall only be used to indicate an abbreviation. Full stops may be omitted from abbreviated words in applications that require limited use of punctuation" (section 4.6).
It was initially published in 1972 (ISO 4:1972),
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with a second edition published in 1984 (ISO 4:1984),
[5]
and the third edition in 1997 (ISO 4:1997).
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