I have looked up my style manual - 'The Chicago Manual of Style; 15th edition"

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Section 16:39 Abbreviations.
A frequently mentioned work may be cited either parenthetically in the text or 
in subsequent notes by means of an abbreviation, with full citation provided 
in a note at first mention. ....

[Footnote]
2. Francios Furet, The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the 
Twentieth Century, trans. Deborah Furet (Chicago: University of Chicago 
press, 1999), 368 (hereafter cited in text as PI)

(Subsequent text references:) "In this sense, the Second World War completed 
what the First had begun-the domination of the great political religions over 
European public opinion." Furet points out (PI, 360). But he goes on to 
argue ...

An abbreviation differs from a short title (see 16.45) in that words may be 
abbreviated and the word order changed.

.... 

[It goes on to give an example where the reference to the 'Records of the 
Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England' are abbreviated 
'Mass. Records'. ]
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The note on Short title (16:45) says in part

The short title contains the key word or words form the main title. An initial 
'A' or 'The' is omitted. The order of the words should not be changed. .....
The short title is italicized or set in Roman according to the way the full 
title appears.
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So it is a real option with the style. Not just a printer of software issue.

David

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 9:56 am, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2006, at 7:33 PM, David Wilson wrote:
> > All other citations are footnote citation. This practise is is followed
> > because otherwise the text would have a couple of hundred very short
> > footnotes of the type - "Táin LL 183"
>
> But does that really matter, or is this more a convenience for authors
> who don't have good citation software, like the dreaded "op. cit."?
>
> Bruce
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