Creating records from Compendex misses abbreviated Journal name

Gurdas_Sandhu
When I create a record of an item found through Compendex, the abbreviated journal name field is blank. I am using Zotero with Firefox on Windows 7.
  • adamsmith
    sample URL? Note that the abbreviated journal name is less important than it used to be as by default Zotero abbreviates journals automatically from the publication fied. (when using the word processor plugin)
  • DWL-SDCA
    Does the abbreviation tool now have abbreviations other than those from the US NCBI NLM? Many (probably most) of the journals with articles in Compendex are not cataloged in the NLM database.
  • Gurdas_Sandhu
    Adam, Thanks for the prompt response.

    I am going through my University proxy, so the URL may not work copy-paste. The URL is:
    http://www.engineeringvillage.com.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/search/doc/detailed.url?SEARCHID=Mff218bf140487b2273M28a4prod3con1&pageType=quickSearch&CID=quickSearchDetailedFormat&DOCINDEX=1&database=1&format=quickSearchDetailedFormat&tagscope=&displayPagination=yes

    The article in that URL is:
    Johnson, K. C., T. D. Durbin, H. Jung, D. R. Cocker, D. Bishnu, and R. Giannelli. Quantifying In-Use PM Measurements for Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 45, No. 14, Jul. 2011, pp. 6073–6079.

    This is just an example and any item saved through Compendex/Engineering Village will not write the journal abbreviation field.

    Now that you mention, I notice Zotero does abbreviate journal name when using the Word plugin. So, the issue is less serious than I thought but if it can be fixed, that'll be even better. I did not notice the Word plugin abbreviation before because I was creating bibliography for a format where abbreviated journal name is not mandatory.

    IMP: I've given the above example from a record I had saved a couple weeks ago. I just tried replicating it and Zotero refuses to even create an item from Engineering Village. The error I get is "Could Not Save Item: An error occurred while saving this item. Check Known Translator Issues for more information."
    I tried a few articles and had the same error for each. I am able to create records through Web of Science/Web of Knowledge database. I've never had an problem with Engineering Village in last 2 years. Not sure why I am seeing that error today. I should probably create a separate thread for this issue but wanted to mention it here in any case.
  • Simon
    DWL-SDCA: Zotero's built-in automatic abbreviation functionality abbreviates journals not indexed by MEDLINE in MEDLINE style (i.e., using LTWA).
  • adamsmith
    I don't see journal abbreviations anywhere in the EV/Compendex data, so no way to import them, sorry. If you used to get them they may have removed them - in that case you could ask them - but otherwise nothing we can do about this.
  • DWL-SDCA
    @Simon
    ...using LTWA...
    That is perfect!

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