Upgrade StorageAbbreviations for Zotero
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Do you still have the "abbrevs" button in the classic add citation dialog? If not, the add-on isn't installed anymore.
We're exploring option on how to let users override the automatically generated abbreviations. The only solutions right now are to either (A) turn off automatic abbreviations, or (B) change the abbreviation manually once the manuscript is completed.
However, what journal title is abbreviated incorrectly by Zotero? We should be able to fix this.
I didn't get the plugin to work for me, though I didn't try very hard. Too much headache. The problem now is that I have an unrelated bug which started happening after I installed the plugin. My citation style is supposed to use the short title for newspapers. It always worked before installing the plugin. Now it often fails and uses the full title instead. Though I find that if I edit the item in zotero, it starts using the short title again--for that item.
The plugin may not be the cause, but I would like to uninstall it in case it's responsible for the bug.
You can try to see if it still has an entry in the extensions folder in the Firefox profile directory
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_how-do-i-find-my-profile
and if so move it out of there and restart Firefox.
But I usually use standalone. And that still has an abbrevs button in the classic dialog. When I go to Application Support/Zotero, I see an abbreviations-for-zotero folder under extensions. I assume the FF plugin installed it there and didn't remove it. Can I just delete that folder?
If you tried the plugin previously and found it wanting, it might be worth giving it another try.
Thank you.
Edit: and what is the function of the "Import from defaults" – "Select a resource" drop-down menu ?
Edit2: it would be nice to have a "OK" button !
I am having the same problem that @Gracile pointed out: I am not capable to import any json file. I was able to do that with the previous version though.
Since it looks that even this plugin is dead (last comment 2 years ago and with no reply) is there any way to use custom abbreviations?
I tried to put an "abbreviasions.json" file in the mail folder of zotero as someone
(Simon?) reported but with no luck. Any ideas? I really need a solution since I have a dead line in a week, and I am not willing to replace manually the entire bibliography :(
Thanks for any tips or help!
The Abbreviation Filter and other Zotero-related things I work on now live here:
https://juris-m.github.io/downloads
The plugin is tested mainly against the Juris-M 5.0 client, because we absolutely need it for legal referencing, and I have limited time to chase other projects for the various plugins I maintain. That said, if the latest version won't install in your environment, let me know and I'll take a look when I can.
@adamsmith Thank you for your suggestion. I found out right now how to that with the styles. However, in my current manuscript different references are not abbreviated using the zotero option such as " Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews" "Clinical and Translational Imaging" and few others. In that case, like @cakebaker asked, is there any way we can locally "update" the database? As I stated in one of my previous posts, @Simon reported that we had to copy an abbreviation.json file in the main folder of zotero, but it doesn't appear to be working anymore (or maybe am I doing something wrong?). I guess there are several other journals "not so common/known" to the most but still pretty important in our small fields. For this reason, @fbennett plugin is really important so we can update the missing abbreviations and have them stored in a local file which would be much easier to handle rather than sqlite database.
Thanks
Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques (MDDELCC).
Would like only the acronym in the in-text reference and the full name in the bibliography
Thank you
I'm not sure what the best behavior would be. Both AF and the Zotero native abbreviations are automatic, so just enabling the option might leave people with a different variety of confusion. My inclination offhand would be to just modify the option text with a note that "automatic" is forced because AF is installed and enabled.
That, plus fix imports so that the plugin itself is fully operational. AF should also have an option to adopt the Zotero list of abbreviations for a particular style. Then you could start with that, and make adjustments as necessary.
@Cakebaker: For the present, I'll just work on getting what's in there working correctly. Full-list editing support probably won't happen, unless someone contributes code to implement it. Lists can be quite large, and implementing a UI that is easier than editing JSON files directly would take quite a bit of work.
Meanwhile, I've found the bug that was messing up imports. Imports of all kinds were broken, in fact. I'll look into the change suggested by @bwiernik, and do a few other small tweaks before making a release later today.
Anyway, I'll fuss with it, and put up a beta before a final release of the now-working AF.
The builtin imports are confirmed to work. External imports from file should work as well (click on the button next to the import pulldown to change the mode.
See how it goes.