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A good authority for romanization is the <i><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html" target="mainwindow" ref="pagearea=body&targetsite=external&targetcat=link&targettype=uri">ALA-LC Romanization Tables</a></i>.</p> <ul> <li id="A33135" class="half_rhythm"> <div> Romanize names in Cyrillic (Russian, Bulgarian, etc.), Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, or character-based languages, such as Chinese and Japanese </div></li> <li id="A33136" class="half_rhythm"> <div> Capitalize only the first letter of romanized names when the original initial is represented by more than one letter <ul class="simple-list"> <li id="A33137" class="half_rhythm"> <div> Iu. A. Iakontov   <i>becomes</i>   Iakontov IuA </div></li> <li id="A33138" class="half_rhythm"> <div> G. Th. Tsakalos   <i>becomes</i>   Tsakalos GTh </div></li> </ul> </div></li> <li id="A33139" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 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. <ul> <li id="A33140" class="half_rhythm"> <div> Treat letters marked with a diacritic or accent as if they are not marked <ul class="simple-list"> <li id="A33141" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 脜   <i>treated as</i>   A </div></li> <li id="A33142" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 脴   <i>treated as</i>   O </div></li> <li id="A33143" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 脟   <i>treated as</i>   C </div></li> <li id="A33144" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 艁   <i>treated as</i>   L </div></li> <li id="A33145" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 脿   <i>treated as</i>   a </div></li> <li id="A33146" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 臐   <i>treated as</i>   g </div></li> <li id="A33147" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 帽   <i>treated as</i>   n </div></li> <li id="A33148" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 眉   <i>treated as</i>   u </div></li> </ul> </div></li> <li id="A33149" class="half_rhythm"> <div> Treat two or more letters printed as a unit (ligated letters) as if they are two letters <ul class="simple-list"> <li id="A33150" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 忙   <i>treated as</i>   ae </div></li> <li id="A33151" class="half_rhythm"> <div> 艙   <i>treated as</i>   oe </div></li> </ul> </div></li> </ul> </div></li> </ul> </div> <div id="bk_toc_contnr"></div> </div> </div> <div class="post-content"> <div> <p>From: <a href="https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.translate.goog/books/NBK7282/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" target="mainwindow">Chapter 1, Journals</a></p> <div class="iconblock clearfix ten_col"> <a class="img_link icnblk_img" title="Table of Contents Page" href="https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.translate.goog/books/n/citmed/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" target="mainwindow"><img class="source-thumb" src="/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/bookshelf/thumbs/th-citmed-lrg.png" alt="Cover of Citing Medicine" height="100px" width="80px"></a> <div class="icnblk_cntnt"> <div> <div> Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition. </div> <div> Patrias K, author; Wendling D, editor. </div> <div> Bethesda (MD): <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/" target="mainwindow" ref="pagearea=content-footer&targetsite=external&targetcat=link&targettype=publisher">National Library of Medicine (US)</a>; 2007-. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="half_rhythm"> <a href="https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.translate.goog/books/about/copyright/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" target="mainwindow">Copyright Notice</a> </div> <p>NCBI Bookshelf. 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