Abbreviations

Some of colleagues might know what JEB is.^* Many would not.

Many publishers, to save space, abbreviate journal titles in scientific articles. I've ranted about this before. Earlier this week, I read this bon mot:

Unlike women's skirts, the more abbreviated a journal citation, the less it reveals.

- C.W. Hart, Jr. & Betty Ursomarso, 1964.

^* It's short for The Journal of Experimental Biology.