After the forced update to JabRef 3.7 (b/c of Medline), some things are behaving quite strangely for me.
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Journal abbreviations are not automatically used anymore when I import an article via Medline. This means that always the full journal name is used.
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Journal names have changed and are now missing in the standard JabRef abbreviation list. I guess this is a thing on Medline’s end, but just to give some examples:
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Science is now “Science (New York, N.Y.)” instead of just “Science”
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RNA is now “RNA (New York, N.Y.)” instead of just “RNA”
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PLoS Genetics gets imported as “PLoS genetics”, which would be fine, but the toggling of the abbreviation changes it to “PLos Genet” instead of “PLoS Genet” like it did previously. It’s not in the standard JabRef abbreviation list, so I have no idea where this comes from
The only solution I’ve found so far is to add all those journals to a manual abbreviation list and then toggle the abbreviation, which is really cumbersome.
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JabRef now imports all special characters as special characters instead of LaTeX, e.g. ä instead of {"{a}}. I usually wouldn’t care since I’m using UTF-8, but sometimes I have to work with Word and bibtex4word has no UTF-8 support. Since all my entries are in the LaTeX style, however, the export as .xml for Word will of course result in “{”{a}}" in Word instead of “ä”. In this case, the new import style would be preferred but the mixture of the two is just not usable in either case.
I haven’t yet checked what happens if the title or abstract contains a “%”. -
When importing Medline, it adds the DOI but not the URL for the DOI.
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When importing Medline, the “other fields” now contain “Chemicals” (which are some kind of keywords where I don’t know where they come from), “Citation-subset”, “Completed”, “Country”, “Created”, “ISSN”, “Issn-linking”, “Issue”.
Before, it was “Institution” (which I really miss), “Language”, “Medline-pst”, “Pii”, “Pmc”, “PMID” (which I also miss). -
The issue number of an article is now stored as “issue”. This was “number” before. “Month” doesn’t get an entry.
I upgraded from 3.5 since 3.6 wasn’t properly working for me.