Don't use journal abbreviation in references

Trunkensoul
I am struggeling with journal abbreviations. The journal abbreviation is shown in the bibliography when a journal abbreviation is available in the field of journal abbreviation of that entry. How can I turn that off? I never want to use journal abbreviations regardless if there is text in the field journal abbreviation, instead the full journal name should be displayed. For example, instead of
"Int J Life Cycle Assessment",
it should be displayed
"International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment".
I know that I can delete the text in the field journal abbreviation manually for each entry, but I am looking for a thorough and efficient solution.

Maybe this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find any forum entry on this issue.

Thank you in advance.
  • adamsmith
    It's set in the citation style. You can search for one that doesn't use journal abbreviations (see the preview for the Hisakata et al. reference on zotero.org/styles) or you can modify existing styles. The journal abbreviation is (almost always) set by adding form="short" to <text variable="container-title"/>
  • Trunkensoul
    Thank you very much for the answer. I have to use the the CSL style "Journal of Rural Studies" and there is unfortunately no string <text variable="container-title"/> in the CSL code. I guess this is because the present style depends on another style. How can I still implement this change please?

    This is the CSL code from https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http://www.zotero.org/styles/journal-of-rural-studies
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" version="1.0" default-locale="en-US">
    <!-- Elsevier, generated from "elsevier" metadata at https://github.com/citation-style-language/journals -->
    <info>
    <title>Journal of Rural Studies</title>
    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/journal-of-rural-studies</id>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/journal-of-rural-studies" rel="self"/>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/elsevier-harvard" rel="independent-parent"/>
    <category citation-format="author-date"/>
    <issn>0743-0167</issn>
    <updated>2018-03-09T05:06:46+00:00</updated>
    <rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
    </info>
    </style>
  • adamsmith
    Journal of Rural Studies just uses the Elsevier Harvard style, so you can modify that. Note also that the journal is quite explicit that you don't need to follow a specific style, as long as all information is complete.
  • Trunkensoul
    Thank you. I modified the CSL code of "Elsevier - Harvard (with titles)" as follows, if anyone needs it.
    I searched for <text variable="container-title" form="short"/>
    and replaced it with <text variable="container-title"/>
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