How to generate citationkey using shortjournal rather than fjournal?

Aaron · April 16, 2025, 8:51am

For an article in the Journal of Scientific Computing, I would like to keep the full name of the journal in the reference, but use the citation key based on JSC rather than JoSC. It can be convenient because sometimes I need to switch between the full and short journal names, while I would like to keep the citation key unchanged.

Siedlerchr · April 18, 2025, 2:19pm

HI, there is an issue for this / was a PR in the progress
You could add a comment there as well highlighting the importance

github.com/JabRef/jabref

Add cleanup operation for journal abbreviation

opened 02:15AM - 19 Sep 24 UTC

tobiasdiez

component: cleanup-ops 📍 Assigned 📌 Pinned good second issue component: journal abbreviations

**Is your suggestion for improvement related to a problem? Please describe.** U…sers usually have a convention to always use abbreviated or unabbreviated journal titles. JabRef should help them enforce this convention using a cleanup operation. **Describe the solution you'd like** Add option to abbreviate/expand the journal title in the Cleanup operation dialog.

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How to generate citationkey using shortjournal rather than fjournal?

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