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--- kb:journal_abbreviations [2011/04/05 20:56] – rmzelle
+++ kb:journal_abbreviations [2019/04/07 19:07] (current) – fbennett
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-====Journal Abbreviations====
+====== Journal Abbreviations ======
-Many journals require journal titles to be abbreviated according to one of several lists of journal abbreviations, such as the [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=journals&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=currentlyindexed[All]|Index Medicus]]. Sometimes the journal requires the abbreviations to include periods after each part (as in //J. Cell. Biol.//), other styles require abbreviations without periods (//J Cell Biol//).
-Zotero has currently no support for these options. The only way to include journal abbreviations is to have the exact content of the "Journal Abbr" field displayed instead of the full journal title.
-In CSL this is achieved by using: <code> <text variable="container-title" form="short"/> </code>
-In the forthcoming [[http://citationstyles.org/|CSL 1.0]] it will be possible to strip away the periods in journal abbreviations as part of a style. Because of this it is recommended to store journal abbreviations with periods. In the longterm, Zotero developers plan functionality similar to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibtex|BibTeX]], which allows the import and use of several abbreviation lists.
+Many citation styles require that journal titles be abbreviated (e.g., using a journal abbreviation list).
+Zotero 4.0 and later can automatically abbreviate journal titles in Index Medicus/MEDLINE format. This option is available in the [[../word_processor_plugin_usage#document_preferences|Document Preferences]] window in the Zotero word processor plugin. When it is disabled, Zotero uses the abbreviation from the "Journal Abbr." field in the client.
+A planned feature for Zotero is support for choosing among several abbreviation lists, so that different styles can use different journal abbreviations (e.g., //Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences// can be abbreviated as either //Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.// or //PNAS//).
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