Official Abbreviations for Medical Journals


The abbreviations of the journal listed in the “List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus”, the appendix of Index Medicus, the medical literature index published by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the US are recognized as the official abbreviations.

Index Medicus Abbreivation

  • Journals in NCBI Databases
  • For abbreviations to be used in an academic journal of medicine, Index Medicus is recommended for reference and bibliographic information of journals can be searched in Journals in NCBI Database.
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