Box 51Journal titles not in English

• For non-English journal titles in the roman alphabet (French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc.), give the name in the original language

  • Atti della Societa Italiana delle Scienze Veterinarie [CD-ROM].
• For a journal title in a non-roman alphabet:

  • Romanize (write in the roman alphabet) the title if it is in Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, or Korean, or in a character-based language (Chinese, Japanese)

    • Novosti Lucevoj Diagnostiki [CD-ROM].
    • Nihon Hokan Daitai Iryo Gakkai shi [disk].
    • [It is not NLM practice, but you may translate journal titles in character-based languages.]
    • Japanese Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine [disk].
  • A good authority for romanization is the ALA-LC Romanization Tables
• Ignore diacritics, accents, and special characters in titles. This rule ignores some conventions used in non-English languages to simplify rules for English-language publications.

  • Treat letters marked with diacritics or accents as if they are not marked

    • Å   treated as   A
    • Ø   treated as   O
    • Ç   treated as   C
    • Ł   treated as   L
    • à   treated as   a
    • ĝ   treated as   g
    • ñ   treated as   n
    • ü   treated as   u
  • Treat two or more letters printed as a unit (ligated letters) as if they are two letters

    • æ   treated as   ae
    • œ   treated as   oe
• Provide an English translation after the original language title whenever possible; place translations in square brackets

  • Atti della Societa Italiana delle Scienze Veterinarie [Acts of the Italian Society for Veterinary Science] [CD-ROM].