Re: ISI journal abbreviations

Nils Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a pybliographer feature idea. I am not sure whether this is the appropriate
> list...
> 
> While there exists no global standard for journal abbreviations, ISI seems
> to have its own standard. An extensive list of ISI journal names with corresponding
> abbreviations is at
> http://library.caltech.edu/reference/abbreviations/
> I haven't found this list at the ISI site, though.
> 
> It would be very cool to have a feature in pybliographer that can scan any database for
> the journal names and (semi-)automatically retrieve the corresponding abbreviation
> (or the other way around) from the above list so that one could easily choose which
> one to use, depending on the requirements of the document being written.
> 
> In addition, it would be great to have automatic correction of all-uppercase journal
> titles.
> 
> More resources on abbreviation lists:
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers, Nils
> 
I actually wrote me a script a while ago which looked up the 
abbreviations from a list and moved the full journal name to an entry 
called full journal name and put the abbreviated name into the journal 
field. The list was essentially the same you give, but it was at
http://wos17.isiknowledge.com/help/
It seems that the page does not exist anymore though.
At the time I only needed a quick fix so I did not do a more elaborate 
approach. However I think bibtex allows to set abbreviations for journal 
names and I think you can tell it to look up the abbreviations in 
different files. So in the bibliographic entry you would have something 
like:
journal = OL
and then you have two different files which define the OL abbreviation, 
one with the full name:
@string{OL = {Optics Letters}
and the other one with the isi abbreviation:
@string{OL = {Opt. Lett.}

Maybe I would make sense to include this functionality into 
pybliographer? At least for 1.2 and then think of a better solution for 
1.3. This still leaves us with the problem of defining the bibtex 
abbreviations, but it should be possible to write a short script which 
creates these.

Cheers
Jochen



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