I'm wondering if anybody has a preference on how we deal with journal
title abbreviations.

Many journals/institutes have a full primary title, but are commonly
referred to by their abbreviation. An example is the American
Institute of Physics, or AIP. But there are a few cases where the
abbreviation is the primary title. E.g. JAAPA, or the Journal of the
American Academy of Physician Assistants.

CSL offers the cs:title element, and since CSL 1.0.1, also
cs:title-short 
(http://citationstyles.org/downloads/release-notes-csl101.html#short-title).
Currently I almost only use cs:title, starting with the primary title,
followed by the (un)abbreviated version in parentheses, e.g.:

<title>American Institute of Physics (AIP)</title>
and
<title>JAAPA (Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants)</title>

This is handy because http://www.zotero.org/styles only shows and
searches the contents of the cs:title field, but obviously we're
clumping two metadata fields together. Somewhat cleaner would be:

<title>American Institute of Physics</title>
<title-short>AIP</title-short>
and
<title>JAAPA (Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants)</title>
<title-short>JAAPA</title-short>

but this would require some changes to the Zotero Style Repository to
keep styles findable. Does anybody have an opinion on the desired path
forward?

Rintze

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