I have a bibliography file obeying BibTeX rules, which I know can be compiled always with biblatex
. This Question already clarifies how to use biblatex
to produce references in IEEE style.
Now the problem is that I want abbreviated journal titles generated with biblatex
while the source is a normal .bib
file with no abbreviations used in journal
field (this field, in fact has two possibilities, see below).
If it were BibTeX
, I could have used the usual IEEEabrv.bib
that is available from CTAN to decode the abbreviations, for e.g.:
IEEE_J_IT = {IEEE Trans. Inf. Th.}
May I know how to get the same abbreviated journal titles with biblatex
??
By the grace of JabRef, I also have the luxury of having two kinds of source .bib
files:
- A
.bib
source with journal field carrying short codes such asIEEE_J_IT
-or- - A
.bib
source with journal field carrying full titles mentioned such asIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
All that I need is to generate the output, something like "IEEE Trans. Inf. Th.", using biblatex
+biber
.
Best Answer
The Biber/
biblatex
combination should still be able to load the 'abbreviations' database:Compiling with an up-to-date Biber/
biblatex
, this comes out as expected.