Possible error in American Journal of Physiology Cell Physiology style

Need someone with more experience than me to look into this.

It seems that current papers written for AJP-Cell (American Journal of Physiolgy - Cell Physiology) use the journal abbreviation without periods. In the past they had periods (at least in the 90's). (This SEEMS to be date based, they changed their style at some point.) So I think the style is now not correct. The AJP site, says:

"The style of citation should be as follows, with journal name abbreviated as in Medline, PubMed, and Index Medicus. Appropriate templates for your citation management software are available from the respective company websites (e.g., EndNote, Reference Manager)."

I'm not sure what that means, but the current published papers seem to NOT have periods.

It also seems that the AJP (specifically "Cell Physiology") style is inherited from <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-physiological-society" rel="independent-parent"/>, which is generating the abbreviation with the periods. If I add strip_periods to the APS style it works as I would expect. But this could change other inherited styles that possibly shouldn't be changed.

What is the correct way to fix this?
Do we need two styes based on dates?
Or do we handle with
<if date lessthan blah>
add periods
<else>
no periods
<endif>

Or am I doing something else wrong?

Thanks
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