Box 27Abbreviation rules for editions

• Use the same rules for abbreviating the words in an edition statement as for the words in journal titles, because an edition is considered a part of the title in journal citations
• Abbreviate and capitalize all significant words and omit the other words, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. For example: of, the, at, in, and, L'. See Appendix A for a list of commonly abbreviated English words in journal titles. See Appendix B for other sources.
• Omit any punctuation found
• Separate the edition from the title by a space and place it in parentheses
• Do not follow abbreviated words with a period, but end all the title information with a period
  Example:

  • First Image. OB/GYN Edition   becomes   First Image (OB GYN Ed) [videocassette].