institutional author abbreviation or short form
The journal Water Alternatives (http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/guide) has in guide for authors:
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Example of organisation as author or government publications:
GWP (Global Water Partnership). 2000. Integrated water resources management. TAC Background Paper No 4. Stockholm: Global Water Partnership.
[in the text, refer to GWP (2000)]
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Name of author is "Global Water Partnership" but reference must be "GWP". I think that this is a problem without a solution in CSl 1.0.1. I see two possible ways to solve this problem:
1. add to the CSL "short form of author name"
2. add to the CSL additional information whether the author is an institution or not (maybe boolean) and rules for abbreviation of institutional authors.
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Example of organisation as author or government publications:
GWP (Global Water Partnership). 2000. Integrated water resources management. TAC Background Paper No 4. Stockholm: Global Water Partnership.
[in the text, refer to GWP (2000)]
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Name of author is "Global Water Partnership" but reference must be "GWP". I think that this is a problem without a solution in CSl 1.0.1. I see two possible ways to solve this problem:
1. add to the CSL "short form of author name"
2. add to the CSL additional information whether the author is an institution or not (maybe boolean) and rules for abbreviation of institutional authors.
fbennett has actually dealt with this in his Zotero fork already, I believe. I wonder what he does?
This is related:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/291308#Comment_291308
I've found reference to:
title-short
container-title-short
so maybe 'author-short' would follow convention?
There may be some useful data here: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/ and https://github.com/Crossref/open-funder-registry.
The csv version doesn't contain the abbreviations, but the RDF version does.
This won't cover all organisational authors, but it's a start (and it's CC-0 :o)
For an immediate solution, you could use the Juris-M variant. It is sync-compatible with zotero.org, and should produce the same results as Zotero with zotero.org repository styles. With a couple of tweaks, any style could be customized (albeit outside of the official CSL repository and project) to recognize and apply the abbreviated form.
Has this issue been resolved? It was mentioned long before here:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12458/organizational-authors
Also, there is a ticket for that here:
https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1229
WWF (Word Wildlife Fund) (2020). Name of document etc ....
I have been hunting around the website/forum and I cannot seem to see a solution incorporated into the main branch.
@fbennett mentions that this is possible in Juris-M. Can someone please help me out on how to go about it? I know how to download the software and set it up but how would I configure the citation style to fit my needs? Thanks in advance!