institutional author abbreviation or short form

LiborA · February 24, 2016

The journal Water Alternatives (http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/guide) has in guide for authors:
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Example of organisation as author or government publications:
GWP (Global Water Partnership). 2000. Integrated water resources management. TAC Background Paper No 4. Stockholm: Global Water Partnership.
[in the text, refer to GWP (2000)]
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Name of author is "Global Water Partnership" but reference must be "GWP". I think that this is a problem without a solution in CSl 1.0.1. I see two possible ways to solve this problem:

1. add to the CSL "short form of author name"
2. add to the CSL additional information whether the author is an institution or not (maybe boolean) and rules for abbreviation of institutional authors.

adamsmith · February 24, 2016

Yes, we definitely need a solution for this. I'm not 100% sure how it should look, but I suppose author-abbreviation might work.

fbennett has actually dealt with this in his Zotero fork already, I believe. I wonder what he does?

jesusbagpuss · May 1, 2018

I think this is a needed extension to CSL too.

This is related:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/291308#Comment_291308

I've found reference to:
title-short
container-title-short

so maybe 'author-short' would follow convention?

There may be some useful data here: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/ and https://github.com/Crossref/open-funder-registry.
The csv version doesn't contain the abbreviations, but the RDF version does.
This won't cover all organisational authors, but it's a start (and it's CC-0 :o)

fbennett · May 1, 2018

As @adamsmith mentions above, this is covered in the Juris-M variant of Zotero (formerly known as "Multilingual Zotero (MLZ)"). It's done by applying an abbreviation to single-field creators when they carry a form="short" attribute.

For an immediate solution, you could use the Juris-M variant. It is sync-compatible with zotero.org, and should produce the same results as Zotero with zotero.org repository styles. With a couple of tweaks, any style could be customized (albeit outside of the official CSL repository and project) to recognize and apply the abbreviated form.

fbennett · May 1, 2018

Oh - sorry, link: https://juris-m.github.io/downloads

aliakhavan89 · February 12, 2020

Hi,

Has this issue been resolved? It was mentioned long before here:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12458/organizational-authors

Also, there is a ticket for that here:

https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1229

dgoose · November 18, 2020

Wondering if this has been resolved. We need a format like (WWF 2020) as the citation and in the ref list:

WWF (Word Wildlife Fund) (2020). Name of document etc ....

I have been hunting around the website/forum and I cannot seem to see a solution incorporated into the main branch.

bwiernik · November 18, 2020

Short forms of institutional names will come in CSL 1.1. For now, I suggest storing items with the full name as the publisher and the short name as the author.

surjaa.c · October 17, 2022

Hi! Any update on this?

adamsmith · October 18, 2022

No, this is a ways out.

surjaa.c · October 18, 2022

Ok, thanks for the update @adamsmith.

@fbennett mentions that this is possible in Juris-M. Can someone please help me out on how to go about it? I know how to download the software and set it up but how would I configure the citation style to fit my needs? Thanks in advance!