Am Monday 22 June 2009 17:10:40 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: Thanks for the help. I will try Paul's proposal to use the string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX > Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation for each journal. I might later use these for further bib-files. Wolfgang > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > I would like to use journal abbreviations in my reference list. I know, > > Jabref is having this option (manage journal abbreviations); I have, > > however, difficulties in getting it to work. Could somebody who used it > > already give me a hint? The explanation in jabref is beyond me (e.g. > > personal Journal list, external files, where and how to insert the > > journal list from JabRef) > > > > There are actually 2 tasks: > > - use abbreviations > > - make sure the various kinds of writing of the same journal end up in > > the same abbreviation > > > > e.g.: > > citation 1 uses AJP > > citation 2 uses AJP > > citation 3 Am.J.Phys. > > citation 4 Am. J. Phys. (space!) > > citation 5 Am. J. Physiol. > > citation 6 Am. J. Physiology > > citation 7 American Journal of Physiology > > > > should all have finally > > > > Am. J. Physiol. > > > > It would be nice to mark the citations in my Jabref file who use the same > > journal and tell jabref to put the correct abbreviation to all those. I > > have the feeling, this is implemented in Jabref, but can't get it to > > work. > > You could do something like that with the personal journal list, but it > would involve adding one line to your new personal list for each version > of each journal's name appearing in your .bib file, e.g. > > AJP -> Am. J. Phys. > Am.J.Phys. -> Am. J. Phys. > American Journal of Physiology -> Am. J. Phys. > etc. > > (assuming Am. J. Phys. was the abbreviation you wanted BibTeX to use). > > Assuming you only have one .bib file, it might be easier to use the > string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX > Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation > for each journal (e.g., AJP -> Am. J. Phys., again assuming the right > side is how you want it listed). Then just manually edit each entry, > replacing whatever is in the journal field with #AJP#. The biggest > limitation of this approach is that the strings only apply to the .bib > file containing them, although I suspect it is not hard to transfer them > to a new .bib file. > > /Paul
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