[YLUG] LaTeX query: Abbreviating journal titles with BibTeX

[Roger Leigh]

Hi folks,

Given a .bib file with full journal titles, is there any way to
convert the full titles to abbreviated titles?

For example: "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America" to "Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A".

This could be in a separate file somewhere to do the lookups.  The
.bib is automatically generated, so I don't want to directly edit it
in place if I can help it--I'd prefer for the replacement to be done
either when running bibtex or latex.

I'm already using by own custom natbib style, so I could alter that if
that is a possibility.


Thanks,
Roger

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