jabref/abbrv.jabref.org

A repository of abbreviations for references, e.g., for conferences, journals, institutes, etc.

JabRef Bibliography Management

JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool.

Stay on top of your literature: JabRef helps you to collect and organize sources, find the paper you need and discover the latest research.

Features

JabRef is available free of charge and is actively developed. It supports you in every step of your research work.

Collect

• Search across many online scientific catalogues like CiteSeer, CrossRef, Google Scholar, IEEEXplore, INSPIRE-HEP, Medline PubMed, MathSciNet, Springer, arXiv, and zbMATH
• Import options for over 15 reference formats
• Easily retrieve and link full-text articles
• Fetch complete bibliographic information based on ISBN, DOI, PubMed-ID and arXiv-ID
• Extract metadata from PDFs
• Import new references directly from the browser with one click using the official browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Vivaldi

Organize

• Group your research into hierarchical collections and organize research items based on keywords/tags, search terms, or your manual assignments
• Advanced search and filter features
• Complete and fix bibliographic data by comparing with curated online catalogs such as Google Scholar, Springer, or MathSciNet
• Customizable citation key generator
• Customize and add new metadata fields or reference types
• Find and merge duplicates
• Attach related documents: 20 different kinds of documents supported out of the box, completely customizable and extendable
• Automatically rename and move associated documents according to customizable rules
• Keep track of what you read: ranking, priority, printed, quality-assured

Cite

• Native BibTeX and Biblatex support
• Cite-as-you-write functionality for external applications such as Emacs, Kile, LyX, Texmaker, TeXstudio, Vim and WinEdt.
• Format references using one of thousands of built-in citation styles or create your own style
• Support for Word and LibreOffice/OpenOffice for inserting and formatting citations

Share

• Many built-in export options or create your export format
• Library is saved as a simple text file, and thus it is easy to share with others via Dropbox and is version-control friendly
• Work in a team: sync the contents of your library via a SQL database

Installation

Fresh development builds are available at builds.jabref.org. The latest stable release is available at FossHub.

Please see our Installation Guide.

Bug Reports, Suggestions, Other Feedback

We are thankful for any bug reports or other feedback. If you have ideas for new features you want to be included in JabRef, tell us in the feature section of our forum! If you need support in using JabRef, please read the documentation first, the frequently asked questions (FAQ) and also have a look at our community forum. You can use our GitHub issue tracker to file bug reports.

An explanation of donation possibilities and usage of donations is available at our donations page.

Contributing

Want to be part of a free and open-source project that tens of thousands of scientists use every day? Check out the ways you can contribute, below:

• Not a programmer? Help translating JabRef at Crowdin or learn how to help at contribute.jabref.org
• Quick overview on the architecture needed? Look at our high-level documentation
• For details on how to contribute, have a look at our guidelines for contributing.
• You are welcome to contribute new features. To get your code included into JabRef, just fork the JabRef repository, make your changes, and create a pull request.
• To work on existing JabRef issues, check out our issue tracker. New to open source contributing? Look for issues with the "good first issue" label to get started.

We view pull requests as a collaborative process. Submit a pull request early to get feedback from the team on work in progress. We will discuss improvements with you and agree to merge them once the developers approve. Please also remember to discuss bigger changes early with the core developers to avoid a waste of time and work. Some fundamental design decisions can be found within our list of Architectural Decision Records.

If you want a step-by-step walk-through on how to set-up your workspace, please check this guideline.

To compile JabRef from source, you need a Java Development Kit 20 and JAVA_HOME pointing to this JDK. To run it, just execute gradlew run. When you want to develop, it is necessary to generate additional sources using gradlew generateSource and then generate the Eclipse gradlew eclipse. For IntelliJ IDEA, just import the project via a Gradle Import by pointing at the build.gradle.

gradlew test executes all tests. We use GitHub Actions for executing the tests after each commit. For developing, it is sufficient to locally only run the associated test for the classes you changed. Github will report any other failure.

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abbrv.jabref.org's Issues

Add duplication checker

Refs JabRef/jabref#5749 (comment)

Refactoring the programs

Can we make the following changes to improve the Python programs?

• wrap the main code into a function.
• Using with statements for context management.
• exception handling

I feel this would make them better and would like to work on this if it's a good idea.

Is there an upper limit for importing large periodical abbreviation database?

I am preparing to add a large periodical abbreviation library, which is about 13M. I have merged all the journals provided by you. However, when I import jabref, it seems that many of the following journals have not been imported. Is there a maximum number of journal entries in a file? I have 170800 journal abbreviation entries

Bioinformatics abbreviated incorrectly

Built-in Journal abbreviations list contains multiple errors

JabRef version

5.10 (latest release)

Operating system

Windows

Details on version and operating system

No response

Checked with the latest development build (copy version output from About dialog)

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

There are many journal abbreviation errors in the built-in list of abbreviations. Some examples:

• Discrete and Computational Geometry
• Differentiial Geometry and Topoloyg, Discrete and Computational Geometry
• Stochastic Analysis in Discrete and Continuous Settings

There seems to be a ton of journals which get mapped to "Lect. Notes. Comput. Sci."

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Update README.md to contain index to existing lists

http://jabref.sourceforge.net/resources.php#availablelists has to be included in the README.md

Refs #1

Add Journal abbreviations from Web of Science

From E-Mail Content (user melp which I can't link here)

https://figshare.com/articles/Journal_abbreviations_from_Web_of_Science/3207787

Refs JabRef/www.jabref.org#34

Fix lists - Migrate from semicolon to comma as separator

GitHub encounters issues at the CSV files.

Go through each file at https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/tree/main/journals and check for the issues:

Example: https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/blob/main/journals/journal_abbreviations_acs.csv

ARKIVOC (Gainesville, FL, United States);ARKIVOC (Gainesville, FL, U. S.)

Does the comma need to be escaped here?

Add math journals

• List from MathSciNet

Move data to wiki data

Wiki data contains also quite a few abbreviations:
https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fname%20%3FISO_4_abbreviation%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fjournal%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5633421%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1160%20%3FISO_4_abbreviation.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fjournal%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fname.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D

query

SELECT DISTINCT ?name ?ISO_4_abbreviation WHERE {
  ?journal wdt:P31 wd:Q5633421;
           wdt:P1160 ?ISO_4_abbreviation.
  
  SERVICE wikibase:label {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en".
    ?journal rdfs:label ?name.
  }
}

journal_abbreviations_webofscience missmatches

Hi!

I found some mismatches in this files for example in the ones starting with letter F, e.g. some frontiers journals:

abbrev	Journal
Physcs Proc	Frontier Research in Nanoscale Science and Technology
Frontiers	Frontiers-a Journal of Women Studies
Front Collect	Frontiers Collection
Frontiers Coll	Frontiers Collection
Key Eng Mat	Frontiers for Engineering Materials
Lect Notes Comput Sc	Frontiers in Algorithmics
Lect Notes Comput Sc	Frontiers in Algorithmics, Proceedings
Front App M	Frontiers in Applied Mathematics
Front Appl Math	Frontiers in Applied Mathematics
Adv Exp Med Biol	Frontiers in Arterial Chemoreception
Fr Art Int	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Front Artif Intel Ap	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Front Behav Neurosci	Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Gwumc Dept	Frontiers in Bioactive Lipids
Front Biom	Frontiers in Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Conf P Acs	Frontiers in Bioprocessing Ii
Front Biosci	Frontiers in Bioscience
Front Biosci	Frontiers in Bioscience-landmark
Front Biosci-landmrk	Frontiers in Bioscience-landmark
Adv Exp Med Biol	Frontiers in Brain Repair
Prog Exp Cardiol	Frontiers in Cardiovascular Health
Front Cell Neurosci	Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Adv Exp Med Biol	Frontiers in Cerebral Vascular Biology
Am Heart Monogr S	Frontiers in Cerebrovascular Disease: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Adv Exp Med Biol	Frontiers in Clinical Neuroscience: Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection
Front Comput Neurosc	Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Springer Ser Adv Man	Frontiers in Computing Technologies for Manufacturing Applications
Ann Ny Acad Sci	Frontiers in Condensed Matter Theory
Ann Ny Acad Sci	Frontiers in Cosmic Physics
Adv Lif Sci	Frontiers in Crustacean Neurobiology

Nature mis-abbreviated

In the JabRef built-in list, we have
Nature abbreviated by "Cah Rev The".
This is obviously incorrect.

By the way, how does one override the built-in list?

Quality check: lists in UTF-8

The files should be encoded in UTF-8. In https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/blob/main/.github/workflows/checks.yml, there should be a job added checking for non-UTF-8 encodings. A start for the implementation can be https://stackoverflow.com/a/66463217/873282.

Fix CONTRIBUTING.md describing contribution process

ACM Journal gone missing

Hi,

after I came across this issue several times, I'm going to post it here: The CS journal

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

seems to be missing from the general list https://abbrv.jabref.org/journals/journal_abbreviations_general.csv. That journal might have changed it's name, nevertheless, citations from that time still use that name.

E.g., I found some lists from the JR user community that still contain it:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wpoely86/jabref-abbreviations/master/list-abbreviations.txt

Thanks for a fix, if applicable.

Python version used for the project

Can the version of Python used for this repo be specified?

updateMathSciNet.py seems to use Python3.6 or later judging by its use of fstrings whereas combineJournalLists.py seems to use Python2 since it uses print statements instead of print() function calls.

Can we agree to use Python3.7 as it is the latest?

Add badgs in README.md

Badges shows current status of application.

• Add Build badge

Use periods consistently

As it stands, some abbreviations include periods, while others don't. Compare for example "Quality Assurance in Health Care" (Qual. Assur. Health Care) and "Quality Assurance in the Fish Industry" (Dev Food Sci).

Is there any reason for this inconsistency? I think it would be best to always use the period or not and to possibly leave the choice up to the user.

Management is abbreviated with outdated "Manage." instead of "Manag."

JabRef version 5.0
Several entries of the standard list of abbreviations containing "Management" are abbreviated with outdated "Manage." instead of the current "Manag."

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_Science_(journal)

Add other abbreviation lists from sourceforge homepage

Built-in abbreviations incorrectly get 'Science(s)' to 'Sc.'

JabRef version

5.12 (latest release)

Operating system

Windows

Details on version and operating system

No response

Checked with the latest development build (copy version output from About dialog)

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

In the latest release 5.12 and 5.13, there are several journals are incorrectly abbreviated in the built-in list. For example, Identity Studies in the Social Sciences, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences all get the word 'Science(s)' abbreviated to 'Sc.' instead of 'Sci.'

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Change abbreviation of Laser & Photonics Reviews to ISO standard

Hey there,

I think the default Jabref abbreviation for Laser & Photonics Reviews, namely Laser Photonics Rev is missing a dot at the end.

Cheers

Remove duplicates from general list

Our general list has entries, which appear also in other lists (see https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/tree/main/journals).

Write a script which removes the duplicates from ...general.csv. Python Pandas could be used. See https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/blob/main/scripts/update_mathscinet.py for an example usage.

This would fix the last bullet point of koppor/jabref#48. ("Check status of the general list [...]")

IEEE journals are abbreviated incorrectly

E.g., IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging is turned into #IEEE_J_MI#, I think the correct abbreviation would be IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging. I believe this is because journal_abbreviations_ieee_strings.csv is not following the conventions / is not parsed as intended. I think this happened in 585cf35, @tobiasdiez maybe you know what went wrong?

Add quality checker

I needed to fix lists, because "wrong" lists were in. See #148

We should have a checker. Following are the tasks it should check:

ERROR: Wrong escape

"Zeszyty Naukowe Wy\","Problemy Mat."
"Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology\","J. Evol. Biochem. Physiol."

ERROR: Wrong beginning letters

"Zeszyty Naukowe Wy\","Problemy Mat."

(This is #107)

ERROR: List contains non-UTF8 characters

This is #125.

WARN: Double entries

"Advances in Applied Mathematics","Adv. Appl. Math."
"Advances in Applied Mathematics","Adv. in Appl. Math."

(This refs #77)

WARN: Same full form appearing twice

"Advances in Applied Mathematics","Adv. Appl. Math."
"Advances in Applied Mathematics","Adv. in Appl. Math."

(This refs #77)

WARN: Same abbrevation appearing twice

"Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. ADAC","Adv. Data Anal. Classif."
"Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. ADAC. Theory, Methods, and Applications in Data Science","Adv. Data Anal. Classif."

(This refs #77)

WARN: abbreviation is the same as the full text

"Quantum","Quantum"

WARN: Management is abbreviated with outdated "Manage." instead of "Manag.

This is #78

Is there a problem with the abbreviation entry in file `journals/journal_abbreviations_webofscience-dots.csv` ?

The following abbreviations feel inexplicable. I'm not sure why they are so abbreviated, and I feel like there are many, so I won't list them all. Is this wrong?

"cancer gene therapy":"Adv. Exp. Med. Biol.", 

Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics;Cism. Cour. L.;;

Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics;Cism. Courses. Lect.;;

Catalysis of Organic Reactions;Chem. Ind-ser.;;
Catalysis of Organic Reactions;Chem. Indust.;;
Catalysis of Organic Reactions /;Chem. Indust.;;

Apache License?

Currently, the repository is under the Apache License (https://github.com/JabRef/reference-abbreviations/blob/master/LICENSE).
Do we keep it?
(or do you want to change it to one of the other licenses in use, i.e. MIT and CC-BY-4.0)

Make the data csv (and adapt JabRef accordingly)

Can the data in https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/blob/master/journals be stored as CSV?

Since CSV files are more structured and is a standard way of storing data. Unless jabref is more comfortable with data in its present format.

Add GitHub quality check action: The starting letters should match

The action should check:

• Each abbreviation should not contain \& (refs #100 (comment))
• The starting letters should match somehow (refs #105
• #125

Journal abbreviations

JabRef 5.6--2022-04-25--5c9d898 built in abbreviation list

"Organic electronics" should be "Org. Electron." instead of "Adv Polym Sci".

Moreover, "Abbreviation Name" and "Shortest unique abbreviations" seem to be the same for all entries.

Previous built in abbreviation list was much better.

Add GitHub workflow calling update_mathscinet.py

GitHub workflow called daily (schedule!)

• checkout repo
• call https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org/blob/master/update_mathscinet.py
• if mathscinet.csv not modified: exit
• add mathscinet.csv
• push to github - use https://github.com/ad-m/github-push-action. - use gh-pages branch

Made release

Hi,,

On the debian side we want to package this tree in order to share this kbibtex.

Could be possible to make tag, thus release

Bastien