Journal abbreviations

The journal abbreviations used are those employed by Chemical Abstracts. Unless otherwise noted, all temperature values are expressed in centigrade units. 

References have been chosen which document the origins of the processes and which review the latest developments. Sources which are reasonably accessible have been quoted wherever possible. Journal abbreviations are those used by Chemical Abstracts. 

Following the above lists, the journals, books, and other reference sources most frequently used are given, together with our abbreviations for them (See pp Abbr 66-76), Journal abbreviations, not included in our list, are the same as given in the "List of Periodicals Abstracted by Chemical Abstracts, Ohio University, Columbus 10, Ohio (1956), except that we do not use periods and leave no space between abbreviated words. Although the French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese books and journals do not capitalize the words in titles (except the first word) we use captials, as is the practice in abbreviating US and British journals... 

JOURNAL ABBREVIATION, VOLUME (ISSUE NUMBER) PAGES, YEAR OR... 

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. 

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

CASSI and its quarterly supplements provide an extensive list of recommended journal abbreviations. Appendix 14-1 lists CASSI abbreviations for more than 1000 of the most commonly cited journals. ACS publication names, their abbreviations, and their volume numbers for 2006 are given in Table 14-1. Note that, in some cases, the word the is part of the title. 

Author 1 Author 2 etc. Title of Unpublished Work. Journal Abbreviation, phrase indicating stage of publication. 

Currently, the majority of the articles retrieved from online publications are based on corresponding print versions. For these articles, the basic periodical reference style is used, but if the article has been viewed only in its electronic form, the designation Online is included in brackets after the journal abbreviation. 

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). 

Often, articles are ready for publication in advance of a full issue of a periodical. Several publishers offer these articles online up to weeks in advance of the print issue. They are identical to the corresponding print articles except that page numbers are often not yet available. Publishers market this service under different names the ACS Publications Division labels them As Soon As Publishable (ASAP). For citation purposes, use the designation Online early access in brackets after the journal abbreviation in place of the publisher-specific term. 

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. 

In the case of book titles, a reasonably complete form has been given, such words as An Elementary Treatise on. . being often omitted. The place of publication has usually been given, but if the title is English and no place is specified, London is to be understood, and if in French, Paris. A full list of journal abbreviations is given below. Some references contain bibliographies, and this has mostly been noted. 

Journal abbreviations used by The Chemical Society prior to revision in 1980 are adopted in this publication. 

The SCI is designed to make up for this gap. The citation index of SCI lists all papers, patents, or books cited in a given year or 2-month period (by first author only) and then gives a list of papers that have done the citing. The index is published bimonthly and cumulated annually. For example, column 43,901 of the 1989 citation index shows that the Jencks paper mentioned above was cited as a footnote in 16 papers published in 1989. It is reasonable to assume that most of the papers that cited the Jencks paper were on closely related subjects. For each of the 16 papers are listed the first author, journal abbreviation, volume and page numbers, and year. In a similar manner, if one consulted SCI for all the years from 1968 on, one would have a complete list of papers that cited that paper. One could obviously broaden the search by then consulting SCI (from 1989 on) for papers that cited these 16 papers, and so on. Papers, patents, or books listed, for example, in the 1989 SCI may go back many years (e.g., papers published by Einstein in 1905 and 1906 are included). The only... 

Presentation of Results. Standard journal abbreviations, the form for recording references, the physical setup for search records, etc., must be fixed to give the search a uniform appearance and make it easy to deal with. Searchers must adhere to these standards to prevent extra work for others. It is a nuisance, for instance, to have a searcher turn in material on loose-leaf sheets when the rest of the search material is on paper of another size or on cards. 

Journal abbreviations are unwelcomed by the literature searcher only when they tend to obscure rather than to disclose the actual title. Confusion in such a citation may arise from a change in the normal word order, such as inversion addition of extra words, such as the society name, place of imprint, or founder unusual contractions or abbreviations of individual words and the complete omission of certain words appearing in the full title. Standard abbreviations have been established from time to time, but as yet no one system of constructing abbreviations may be considered to be truly international. 

Japanese surnames, 91 Jargon, avoidance, 12 Journal abbreviation field, format when citing periodicals, 177—182... 

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