search

texworld / betterbib

:green_book: Command-line tools for bibliographies.
816 stars 42 forks source link

Better handle contradictory journal abbreviations from Crossref #233

Closed anntzer closed 2 years ago

anntzer commented 2 years ago

Thanks for this useful tool!

Journal abbreviations from Crossref can be a bit inconsistent. For example, the following entries are both from PNAS: https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1073/pnas.1719906115 https://api.crossref.org/v1/works/10.1073/pnas.1215175109 but the first one has a short-container-title of "Proc Natl Acad Sci USA" whereas the second one has "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" which later gets abbreviated by betterbib into "Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci."

Perhaps betterbib could check whether there are cases where two different entries with the same journal name end up with two different abbreviations, and do something (prefer the Crossref abbreviation, or prefer its own autogenerated abbreviation), perhaps togglable, about it?

nschloe commented 2 years ago

Fixed in 4.1.2. Thanks for the report!

anntzer commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the quick fix!