[Bibdesk-users] Journal abbreviation overview

[Christian Burk]

Hello Folks,

is there a list for journal abbreviations on the net?


Thanks
Christian

[Holger Frauenrath]

Post by Christian Burk
Hello Folks,
is there a list for journal abbreviations on the net?
Thanks
Christian

Hi Christian,

if you Google "journal abbreviations", there are a couple of hits
that look useful. :-)

Alternatively, I have a list in tab delimited format, but it is
restricted to chemistry and related fields.

Best regards
Holger



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[Michael McCracken]

There are a few at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table.html

Each journal has one or more bibtex files in there, and there is also
this:

http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/journal.html

But the abbreviation style differs depending on the citation
formatting guidelines -
for example, I know that some publishers are very strict, while the
places I usually submit to, I could write whatever I wanted for
journal names and nobody seems to notice.

-mike

Post by Christian Burk
Hello Folks,
is there a list for journal abbreviations on the net?
Thanks
Christian
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[James Howison]

There's a massive easily parse-able list publically available through
Web of Science, but I don't know what the copyright conditions of
that are.

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/help/A_abrvjt.html

As Mike points out, the 'right' abbreviation is actually a journal-by-
journal situation, so it seems to me that it ought to reside in the
'style layer'. If I had to deal with this (I don't :) it would seem
to me that the 'right thing to do' is to stick a processing step into
the latex-bibtex-latex-latex cycle that temporarily 'swaps out' the
Journal name using a style-specified abbreviation lookup table.

ie latex->abbreviate-journal-names.pl->bibtex->latex->latex

where abbreviate-journal-names.pl creates a temporary bibtex file to
feed to bibtex. Or hell, hack it into Bibtex. Who maintains that
anyway ;)

Cheers,
James

Post by Michael McCracken
There are a few at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-
table.html
Each journal has one or more bibtex files in there, and there is also
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/journal.html
But the abbreviation style differs depending on the citation
formatting guidelines -
for example, I know that some publishers are very strict, while the
places I usually submit to, I could write whatever I wanted for
journal names and nobody seems to notice.
-mike

Post by Christian Burk
Hello Folks,
is there a list for journal abbreviations on the net?
Thanks
Christian
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[Christian Burk]

Post by James Howison
There's a massive easily parse-able list publically available through
Web of Science, but I don't know what the copyright conditions of
that are.
http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/help/A_abrvjt.html

Thanks, that's the list which I finally used. It shows nearly all my
relevant journals and there abbreviations.

Post by James Howison
If I had to deal with this (I don't :) it would seem
to me that the 'right thing to do' is to stick a processing step into
the latex-bibtex-latex-latex cycle that temporarily 'swaps out' the
Journal name using a style-specified abbreviation lookup table.
ie latex->abbreviate-journal-names.pl->bibtex->latex->latex
where abbreviate-journal-names.pl creates a temporary bibtex file to
feed to bibtex. Or hell, hack it into Bibtex. Who maintains that
anyway ;)

I didn't realy get this. What do you mean by "stick a process step
into ... the cycle"? I've never done any programing, but would like
to know more about.

Christian

[Christian Burk]

Post by Michael McCracken
There are a few at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-
table.html
Each journal has one or more bibtex files in there

[...]

Will there be a way to handle these abbreviations within BibDesk one
time?

Christian

[Michael McCracken]

What kind of support are you looking for?

-mike

Post by Christian Burk

Post by Michael McCracken
There are a few at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-
table.html
Each journal has one or more bibtex files in there

[...]
Will there be a way to handle these abbreviations within BibDesk one
time?
Christian

[Christian Burk]

Post by Michael McCracken
What kind of support are you looking for?
-mike

If I import a publication from pubmed, science direct, scopus or what
ever, I either get the full name or some abbreviation of the journal.
For beeing consistent through my bibliography at the end of my paper,
I think it would make sense to have some opportunity to select based
on the information from the imported publication (some abbreviation
or the full name) a proper abbreviation or the full name. I imagine
there could be some database (should be customizable by the user)
including the full name of every journal with the possible
abbreviations.

Christian