Don't use journal abbreviation in references

Trunkensoul · January 25, 2022

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 · January 25, 2022

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 · January 25, 2022

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 · January 25, 2022

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 · January 31, 2022

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"/>