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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Enlightened TeX
gurus,<BR><BR>I am writing an article, and have a specific bibliographystyle
quite close <BR>to the formatting required. Now here is the problem: in the
"journal" field <BR>of the .bib file I have the full name of the journal for
each entry (say, <BR>"Proceedings of the national academy of sciences"), yet the
journal's <BR>bibliography requires abbreviations to be used (in the example it
would be <BR>"Proc. Nat. Ac.").<BR><BR>To avoid having to re-write the fields of
each entry every time I write for <BR>a journal that uses abbreviations or not,
is there a way to create some <BR>"association list" (intuitively something
containing two columns: one with <BR>the full name - i.e. the target string -
and one with the abbreviated name - <BR>i.e. the string that replaces the target
string - ) and some command that <BR>may look up into the list and apply
the changes (i.e. put abbreviations <BR>instead of full name) at
compiling?<BR><BR>Hope this is clear enough..!<BR><BR> Thanks for any help,
cheers<BR><BR> Martin</FONT><BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
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