Adoption of structured abstracts by general medical journals and format for a structured abstract

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 237-242

  Nakayama, Takeo ^a   Hirai, Nobuko ^b   Yamazaki, Shigeaki ^c   Naito, Mariko ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Bibliographic Service Division   (Japan)

^c AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY MEDICINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; WRITING; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

EID: 23844468638     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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