Box 56Non-English names for parts

• Provide the name in the original language for non-English names in the roman alphabet (primarily European languages, such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, etc.)

  • Capitulo 10
  • Annexe 5
  • Figura 10a
• Romanize (write in the roman alphabet) titles in Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, or Korean. A good authority for romanization is the ALA-LC Romanization Tables.

  • Risunok 6
  • Parartema 4
• Romanize or translate names in character-based languages (Chinese, Japanese, etc.). Surround translated titles with square brackets.

  • Ichiran-hiyo 3 or [Table 3, ]
• Ignore diacritics, accents, and special characters in names. 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, if possible, after the original language title, placed in square brackets

  • Anexo, Creacion de las especialidades medicas [Appendix, Beginnings of medical specialties]; p. 275-81. Spanish.
• To help identify parts in other languages, see the following examples:

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  Language	Chapter	Table	Figure	Appendix	Section
  French	Chapitre	Tableau	Figure	Appendice	Section
  German	Kapitel	Tabelle	Abbildung	Anhang	Sektion
  			Figur	Appendix	Abteilung
  				Zusatz
  Italian	Capitolo	Tabella	Figura	Appendice	Parte
  					Sezione
  Russian	Glava	Tablitsa	Risunok	Prilozenie	Sekcija
  					Otdel
  					Otdelenie
  Spanish	Capitulo	Tabla	Figura	Apendice	Seccion
  					Parte