Box 52Non-English words for editions

• For non-English edition statements written in the roman alphabet (French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc.):

  • Give the name in the original language
  • Separate the edition from the title proper by a space and place it in parentheses
  • End all the title information with the medium of the journal, placed in square brackets, followed by a period
    Example:

    • Video Rivista Italiana di Gastroenterologia. Edizione Endoscopia Digestiva.
    • becomes
    • Video Rivista Italiana di Gastroenterologia (Edizione Endoscopia Digestiva) [videocassette].
• For an edition statement written in Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean or in a character-based language such as Chinese and Japanese:

  • Romanize (write in the roman alphabet) the words for edition. A good authority for romanization is the ALA-LC Romanization Tables
  • Separate the edition from the title proper by a space and place it in parentheses
  • End all title information with the medium of the journal, placed in square brackets, followed by a period
  • It is not NLM practice, but you may translate journal titles and their editions in a character-based language
• 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 a letter marked with diacritics or accents as if it were 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 were two letters

    • æ   treated as   ae
    • œ   treated as   oe
• To help identify editions in other languages, below is a brief list of Non-English words for editions with their abbreviations, if any (n.a. = not abbreviated):

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  Language	Word	Abbreviation
  Danish	Oplag	n.a.
  Dutch	Uitgave	Uitg
  	Editie	Ed
  Finnish	Julkaisu	Julk
  French	Edition	Ed
  German	Ausgabe	Ausg
  Greek	Ekdosis	Ekd
  Italian	Edizione	Ed
  Norwegian	Publikasjon	Pub
  Portuguese	Edicao	Ed
  Russian	Izdanie	Izd
  Spanish	Edicion	Ed
  Swedish	Upplaga	n.a.