In addition to the ISSN-LTWA title word to abbreviation utility: http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php
I have used these resources (some of the listings are proprietary): http://www.abbreviations.com/jas.php http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/general/journal_abbreviations.html http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/res/journal_abbrevs.xhtml http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/j-abbrev.html http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/appg.pdf David W. Lawrence, PhD, MPH, Director Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice San Diego State University, School of Public Health 6475 Alvarado Road, Suite 105 San Diego, CA 92120 USA [email protected] V 619 594 1994 Skype: DWL-SDCA www.CIPPP.org -- www.SafetyLit.org On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Sebastian Karcher <[email protected]> wrote: > on the Zotero side this is handled with a single list from MEDLINE - > the Medline data is under some type of open license, so no legal issue > there. (The file is JSON - I think Zotero also has an algorithm to > abbreviate unknown journal titles, but I don't know that for sure). > > We can obviously host list(s) on CSL and I actually intended to do > this at one time - that's why we have > https://github.com/citation-style-language/abbreviations which is > empty. > Feel free to push stuff to it. > > For me abbreviations become most interesting from a CSL perspective if we > either > a) we have multiple lists for different sets of journals (e.g. Endnote > says they have 11 different ones or so, I don't know how different > they are) and even more so if > b) we decide to include the information of which list to use in > citation styles (which - if there are multiple lists - I think would > be ideal). For that we'd need, again, a better sense of the > differences out there. > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Carles Pina <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My next project in Mendeley is to add "Journal Abbreviations". >> Currently Mendeley Desktop has a workaround but it doesn't have proper >> support (with UI, etc.). >> >> In this feedback page: >> http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/83173-journal-abbreviations >> >> some users has posted a file with the format: >> FULL_JOURNAL_NAME <tab> abbreviated >> >> See for example: >> http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/75692408/AbbreviationsFixMendeley.zip >> >> It seems that the users has been sending this file between them and >> improving. >> >> I don't really know from where the original data came but I know that >> has been used for a while for many users. >> >> Questions: >> a) Should the citation styles github repository contain a list of >> journal abbreviations? We have citations and locales, so it may be >> interesting for the community. >> b) Could we use without legal problems the above file in the >> citation-styles project? Mendeley hasn't done it, it has evolved from >> different sources. Maybe it comes from places like >> http://www.library.uq.edu.au/faqs/endnote/journal_terms.html but I >> haven't checked. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Carles Pina | Software Engineer >> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/Carles-Pina/ >> >> Mendeley Limited | London, UK | www.mendeley.com >> Registered in England and Wales | Company Number 6419015 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: >> >> Build for Windows Store. >> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> xbiblio-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > > > > -- > Sebastian Karcher > Ph.D. Candidate > Department of Political Science > Northwestern University > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
