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Patrias K, author; Wendling D, editor. Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007-.
Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition.
Show detailsBox 6Names in non-roman alphabets (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean) or character-based languages (Chinese, Japanese)
Romanization, a form of transliteration, means using the roman (Latin) alphabet to represent the letters or characters of another alphabet. A good authority for romanization is the ALA-LC Romanization Tables.
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Romanize names if they are in Cyrillic (Russian, Bulgarian, etc.), Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, or Korean, or character-based languages, such as Chinese and Japanese
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Capitalize only the first letter of romanized names if the original initial is represented by more than one letter
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Iu. A. Iakontov; becomes Iakontov IuA
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G. Th. Tsakalos; becomes Tsakalos GTh
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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.
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Treat letters marked with diacritics or accents as if they are not marked
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Å treated as A
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Ø treated as O
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Ç treated as C
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Ł treated as L
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à treated as a
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ĝ treated as g
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ñ treated as n
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ü treated as u
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Treat two or more letters printed as a unit (ligated letters) as if they are two letters
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æ treated as ae
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œ treated as oe
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