Strange journal name change in bibliography

[harrysw1729]

Consider the following source document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=chicago-author-date]{citation-style-language}

\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\begin{document}
\textcite{card2001estimating}

\printbibliography{}
\end{document}

Below the refs.bib file.

@article{card2001estimating,
  title={Estimating the return to schooling: Progress on some persistent econometric problems},
  author={Card, David},
  journal={Econometrica},
  year={2001},
  publisher={Econometric Society},
  doi={doi.org/10.1111/1468-0262.00237}
}

Below is the screenshot of the bibliography. Please note that the journal name differs from the value of the journal field in the .bib fie.

The issue disappears, however, if I change the journal value of the .bib entry to Econ:

Thanks a lot for your help!

[zepinglee]

When converting .bib to CSL-JSON, the citeproc-lua engine tries to find the full journal title and abbreviation according to the data from https://github.com/JabRef/abbrv.jabref.org. The journal field in this example matches an entry in ncbi/json/ncbi-abbreviations.json and thus the engine treats Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society as the full title and Econometrica as abbreviation.

			"Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society": "Econometrica",

[harrysw1729]

That's an interesting feature! However, is it possible to turn off this feature when using the CSL package? I can't seem to find any reference to it in the package's documentation.

[ThiloteE]

Related issues:

• Ability to disable the built-in JabRef journal abbreviation list JabRef/jabref#12468.
• Support multiple journal abbreviations lists JabRef/jabref#12364
• Fuzzy matching for journal abbreviations JabRef/jabref#12467 (Fuzzy matching for journal abbreviations JabRef/jabref#12477)

TL;DR: Different authorities have different opinions about the "correct" abbreviation for a given journal. For this reason, Journal Abbreviations require continuous maintenance. For anybody interested in working on issues like these, you are very welcome to do so.

[ThiloteE]

That's an interesting feature! However, is it possible to turn off this feature when using the CSL package? I can't seem to find any reference to it in the package's documentation.

+1

[zepinglee]

That's an interesting feature! However, is it possible to turn off this feature when using the CSL package? I can't seem to find any reference to it in the package's documentation.

There is no interface at the moment. I propose adding an option like \addbibresource[auto-journal-abbreviation = false]{refs.bib}.

Do you have other name suggestions?

[harrysw1729]

I personally feel "journal-abbreviation=false" is clear enough.😄

[zepinglee]

@harrysw1729 I've added the journal-abbreviation = false feature in e98dcbb. Additionally the searching feature is disabled for one-word title.

These changes are just published in v0.7.0 and will be available in CTAN soon.