{"id":5783,"date":"2025-10-23T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:23:48","slug":"iso-4-standardised-abbreviations-used-for-words-in-scientific-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/2025\/10\/23\/iso-4-standardised-abbreviations-used-for-words-in-scientific-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"ISO 4: standardised abbreviations used for words in scientific citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If page limit is an issue for you as an author of a scientific paper, then shortening references may be a way to squeeze out a few lines, e.g. using in the references section <em>IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng.<\/em> instead of <em>IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_4\">ISO 4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.org\/standard\/3569.html\">standard<\/a>: Words such as articles (<em>the<\/em>), conjunctions (<em>and<\/em>), and prepositions (<em>for<\/em>\/<em>of<\/em>\/<em>in<\/em>) are generally removed and a <em>List of Title Word Abbreviations<\/em> (LTWA) is used to abbreviate common title words.<\/p>\n<p>You can look up the words in the LTWA at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.issn.org\/services\/online-services\/access-to-the-ltwa\/\">https:\/\/www.issn.org\/services\/online-services\/access-to-the-ltwa\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, that list seems not be exhaustive: I have seen journals themselves using abbreviations not contained in the LTWA.<\/p>\n<p>It therefore helps to search also for the full name and add as search term <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">iso 4<\/code> or to check whether there is a Wikipedia article that contains the ISO 4 abbreviation or to look up the journal at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resurchify.com\/impact\/details\/\">https:\/\/www.resurchify.com\/impact\/details\/<\/a> or at <a href=\"https:\/\/paperpile.com\/guides\/resources\/abbreviations\/\">https:\/\/paperpile.com\/guides\/resources\/abbreviations\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If page limit is an issue for you as an author of a scientific paper, then shortening references may be a way to squeeze out a few lines, e.g. using in the references section IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. instead of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. This is based on the ISO 4 standard: Words such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}