Wiley and Science Direct Journal Abbreviations
Dear All,
I have found that Wiley and Science Direct do not provide journal abbreviations in zotero. I know that these sites do not provide a journal abbreviation in the RIS file. I was wondering if there was some other way of obtaining the abbreviation and including this in the translators. This was available in the for the old pubs.acs.org website, and is currently available in the new translator available in thread http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5227/a-new-acs-translator/#Item_5 . I know a pretty big group of chemists that likes using zotero but this is a pretty big stumbling block (as they use it to export refs in the ACS style).
I know this may be an old problem and there may be no workaround for it. Perhaps the best solution would be to have a feature that translates Publication names into Journal Abbr.
Thanks
smk
I have found that Wiley and Science Direct do not provide journal abbreviations in zotero. I know that these sites do not provide a journal abbreviation in the RIS file. I was wondering if there was some other way of obtaining the abbreviation and including this in the translators. This was available in the for the old pubs.acs.org website, and is currently available in the new translator available in thread http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5227/a-new-acs-translator/#Item_5 . I know a pretty big group of chemists that likes using zotero but this is a pretty big stumbling block (as they use it to export refs in the ACS style).
I know this may be an old problem and there may be no workaround for it. Perhaps the best solution would be to have a feature that translates Publication names into Journal Abbr.
Thanks
smk
Wiley and SD did not supply the JA, no way to obtain the JA for Zotero.
The best way to use JA is to provide a Journal Manager.
An option like this is available in iTunes for music. While all the songs are independent entities you can highlight all songs from an artist, or album and change some data that is common to all of the songs like artist, genre, year, etc...
getting the abbreviations should be possible from the translator if someone wrote it/updated it, but that would take extra work.
I'm not sure what the status on this is within csl, but I believe the status is what Frank Bennett writes above - basic support for this is included in the next csl version, which will be in Zotero 2.1 - but then there is still the issue of maintaining abbreviation lists.