Journal articles, title abbreviations

The rules for writing a research proposal title are similar to those for the journal article and poster. Like journal article titles (see table 7.1), a proposal title should include keywords that will help the program officer decide where to send your proposal for review. The title should also include keywords that capture the need(s) targeted by the granting institution. Abbreviations and acronyms should be avoided. Although explicit restrictions on title length are rare, shorter titles are preferred, provided that they accurately depict the contents and emphases of the proposal. 

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. 

Any reference listed must be so specific that the reader could easily locate the information. References to books must include all authors and all initials the lull title and edition the volume (if more than one) publisher, place and date of publication any pages cited (either given in the text or included in the full reference). The ZSBN is optional but sometimes useful. References to journal articles must include all authors and all initials the lull title of the article, the journal name (or accepted standard abbreviation) volume number (underlined or in italics) part number (in brackets) inclusive page numbers for the article year of publication. 

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. 

Periodicals Name(s), initials, year of publication in parentheses, full article title, journal title as abbreviated in The ACS Style Guide A Manual for Authors and Editors of the American Chemical Society, volume number, colon, first and last page numbers. Example ... 

Print out each article that you decide to use. Be sure to print the enf/re article. A common mistake is to print the text but not the references. Check to be sure the printout includes full bibliographic information (i.e., the full and abbreviated journal name and the article s title, authors, volume, year, and inclusive page numbers). For a Web-based article, write down the full Web address and the month and year that you accessed the site. 

It has been our practice to use, as far as possible, Royal Society of Chemistry conventions in citing literature. Thus, initials rather than first names are employed and standard journal abbreviations are used. One exception to frequent scientific practice is that, in most cases, titles of papers and articles are added. We find that this custom from the historical literature has much to commend it in the present context. 

Periodical references must include the author names, abbreviated journal title, year of publication, volume number (if any), and initial page of cited article (the complete span is better). 

Author 1 Author 2 Author 3 etc. Title of Article. Journal Abbreviation Year, Volume, Inclusive Pagination. 

Sometimes journal names change. Authors should use the abbreviation of the journal title that was in use at the time the article was published. CASSI lists the journal titles and the range of years during which the title was being used. 

Author 1 Author 2 Author 3 etc. Title of Article. Journal Abbreviation [Online] Year, Volume, Article Number or other identifying information. Database Provider. URL of top page (accessed Month Day, Year). 

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. 

Abbreviated journal title Specialty Number of articles (in 2010) Number ofRCTs (in 2010) Journal s impact factor (in 2012)... 

Abbreviated Journal Title ISSN Total Cites Impact Factor 5-Year Impactor Factor Articles Cited Half- life Article Influence TM Score... 

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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