Creating Bibliographies with Journal Abbreviations

When you insert a journal name from the Journals term list into a reference, only the first entry for the journal name is entered. However, you can create a bibliography that uses any abbreviation in the term list by editing the style used to format the paper.

To edit a style to use journal abbreviations:

From the Tools menu, select Output Styles, then select Open Style Manager.
Select the style that you would like to edit, and click Edit.
From the list of options at the left of the Style Editor window, click Journal Names.
Select one of the available options.
Close and save the style. Now when you format a paper or look at the Preview panel, all of the journal names should be replaced with the appropriate abbreviation.

If a journal name in one of your references does not have the selected abbreviation entered in the Journals term list, the journal name appears in the bibliography exactly as it is entered in the Reference window. Editing the Journal term list to include all the versions of the name will fix it in the current bibliography and any time that journal name is used in the future. See Modifying Terms.