Journal articles, abstract abbreviations

Abbreviations and acronyms As with the journal article abstract, most... 

The poster text is divided into the same general IMRD sections as the journal article Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Similarly, most posters include an Acknowledgments section, some have an abbreviated References section, and all have a title and author list. Most posters do not include an abstract, in part because of space limitations and in part because an abstract already appears in the conference proceedings. Like the journal article, the IMRD structure of the poster follows an hourglass shape. The top (Introduction) and bottom (Discussion) sections have a broader focus, while the middle sections (Methods and Results) have a narrower focus. Each section of the poster can be divided into individual moves or steps that guide viewers in a conventional way through the content of each section. These moves are analyzed in the next part of the chapter. 

For journal articles (a) authors names, followed by initials, (b) journal, abbreviated to conform to the List of Periodicals as established by Chemical Abstracts, (c) volume number, id) issue number, if necessary, (e) page number, and (/) year (in parentheses). The title of the article is usually omitted. Issue number is omitted if paging is on a yearly basis. The date is sometimes included with the year in place of the issue number. 

TO the chemical worker, references to periodicals, books, and patents are the means by which the wealth of published scientific knowledge is made accessible. Without the elaborate network of abstract journals, bibliographies, reviews, and indexes which exist today, the research worker would be little better off than the first man who discovered the use of fire. An important phase of locating any article is the identification of the periodical in which it appeared, or, as is more often the case, the abbreviations of its title. 

In full-text databases the complete articles can be retrieved. They contain the complete text of a documentation unit. In most cases this text is completed with additional data-fields, e.g., descriptor, thesauri, classification code fields. An example of a full-text database is the CJRSC (Chemical Journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry) which is offered by STN. The document, shown in Search Example 2 on the topic of waste removal, is abbreviated. Apart from bibliographic information (author [AU], title [TI], source [SO], abstract [AB]) the full article with tables and figures can be retrieved. The information found is very comprehensive but also expensive in comparison to bibliographic databases (see Chemical Abstracts Service Information System and Inorganic Chemistry Databases). 

The most important journals in chemistry are arranged according to the frequency of their citation and alphabetically arranged according to their abbreviated titles. The importance of a journal is measured by the number of times articles from the journal are cited in Chemical Abstracts. 

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