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What are the general abbreviation rules of English words?
The abbreviation of the word 1 follows the consonant and is omitted before the vowel.

English word abbreviations usually end in consonants, not vowels. For example, American is abbreviated as Am instead of Ame or Amer, Medicine or Medical is abbreviated as Med, MED and Eur is abbreviated as Eur. Except Sci, the abbreviation is Sci, probably because the vowel I is followed by the vowel E. The abbreviation title must be capitalized at the beginning of each word, not all capitalized or lowercase.

2 compressed alphabet method

Only a few words are abbreviated with compressed letters, such as Jpn instead of Jan, Jan and National should be abbreviated as Natl instead of Nat. In the description of references, it is a common mistake for readers to write Japanese as Jan. For example, Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology should be abbreviated as Jpn J Ophthalmol, the abbreviation of research report of National Cancer Institute is Natl Cancer Inst Res Rep, Nat is the abbreviation of Nature and Natural, such as Nature Medicine, and Nature biotechnology is abbreviated as Nat Med and Nat Biotechnol respectively. In addition, CN is the country code of China. In the abbreviated titles of periodicals, ChinaChinese should be abbreviated as Chin instead of CN. In order to avoid confusion with other commonly used abbreviations, compressed writing is adopted. For example, Japanese can't be abbreviated as Jan, maybe Jan is a fixed abbreviation of January, National is abbreviated as Natl instead of Nat, and maybe Nat is an abbreviation of Nature and Natural.

3 Subject name abbreviation

Abbreviations of subject names are very common in journal titles, so it is necessary to understand the laws of abbreviations of subject names. All words ending in -ogy should be deleted from the suffix -ogy. For example, the abbreviation of cardiology is Cariol, and the abbreviation of biology is Biol, and the subject noun ending in -ics is omitted. For example, Physics is abbreviated as Phys, and words ending in -try are abbreviated together with the previous letters by omitting -try. For example, the chemical abbreviation is Chem, which also includes abbreviations of other adjectives.

Abbreviations of common words and special words in periodical titles

Some commonly used words in Journal names can be abbreviated as one letter, such as J for Journal, Q for Quarterly, R for Royal, N for New, S for South, etc.

5 the initial combination of periodical titles

Some magazine abbreviations use initials and have been fixed. Generally, they are journals with international influence and are recognized by many international index retrieval tools. For example, Journal of American Medical Association is abbreviated as JAMA, and British Medical Journal is abbreviated as BMJ.

6 abbreviation of country name

There are two abbreviations of country names in periodical titles. If the name of a country is a word, abbreviations often omit suffixes or some letters after the word. For example, American abbreviation is Am, British abbreviation is br, Br, and Chinese abbreviation is Chin. When the name of a country consists of multiple phrases, the first letter of each word is usually taken, such as the United States of America, which is abbreviated as USA or US.

Seven function words are omitted.

There are many function words such as the, of, for, and, on, from, to and so on. , abbreviations are omitted.

Let's go For example, Journal of Chemistry is abbreviated as J Chem, and Archives of Medical Research is abbreviated as

Arch Med RES