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From: bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper)
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Subject: Re: BiBTeX: Journal Abbreviations
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Date: 15 Mar 91 11:05:19 GMT
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In-Reply-To: alexande@grover.cs.unc.edu's message of 13 Mar 91 01:57:51 GMT

In article <2253@borg.cs.unc.edu> alexande@grover.cs.unc.edu (Geoffrey D.
Alexander) writes:
>I just downloaded the BiBTeX styles aaai-named.bst, acm.bst, ieeetr.bst, and
>siam.bst from sun.soe.clarkson.edu.  These styles work fine.  However, they
>don't seem to include journal abbreviations.  Is there a way to have BiBTeX
>abbreviate journal names?  If so, are there standard "journal abbreviation
>files" for the above styles?

The way I do it myself is to have a number of string definitions in my .bib
file, like:

@STRING{tcs = "Theoret.\ Comput.\ Sci."}

I can then use that string as an abbreviation, as in

	JOURNAL = tcs,

This works reasonably well if you always want, say, the abbreviated form,
but it is a pain if you produce documents with different formats of journal
names. Thus, it would be nice to have an automated abbreviation facility
that in abbrev style used a database to find abbreviations for full journal
names.

Bjorn Lisper