BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ How to customize the short cut for repeating words in biblio

[pban92]

In my bibliography, say, title of the journal is Journal of Environment and Earth appearing several times in different references. Instead of typing the same thing, there is a way I forgot where one can make a short cut reference to the journal name. For example every time instead of the above journal name one can simply type jee and at the beginning of the bibliography, jfe can be defined.

Could anybody please help me with this?

Thanks,

pban92

[gmedina]

Hi,

in your .bib file you can use the @string command to define abbreviations:

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@string{jee = "Journal of Environment and Earth"}

and now you can use the abbreviation jee in your BiBTeX fields (without enclosing it in braces or quotation marks):

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@article{test,
  author = "The Author",
  title  = "The title",
  journal = jee,
  year = "2009"}

[pban92]

Thanks gmedina! It was exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!