Default journal abbreviation setting

[tobiasdiez]

Is your suggestion for improvement related to a problem? Please describe.

It is possible to change the abbreviation of a journal using the button next to the journal or journaltitle field. However, it is not possible to declare once and for all that one would like to always have abbreviated journals, which then should be respected by the importer and fetchers.

Describe the solution you'd like

• An option in the preferences to make "(un)abbreviated journals" the default
• Fetchers automatically convert the api responses to adhere to this setting
• Add option in "Cleanup entries" to (un)abbreviate journal titles

[MattBryantt]

Hi, I'd like to take on this issue as part of my university assignment if it's still available! Thanks very much.

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[koppor]

* Add option in "Cleanup entries" to (un)abbreviate journal titles

@tobiasdiez Is this really necessary? We already have this in the "Quality" menu.

[tobiasdiez]

It's perhaps not super important but it's more convenient. Once you have configured your preferred abbreviation in the cleanup dialog, it's only one click after an import to properly format all fields of all new entries. Otherwise you have to remember to also abbreviate the journal names after the import + cleanup.

(We might want to remove these abbreviation commands under "Quality" once they can be run via the cleanup.)

[koppor]

The sub task "Add option in "Cleanup entries" to (un)abbreviate journal titles" is not part of this issue any more. It is a seperate issue #11791.

The other two subtasks remain.

The settings goes to "Web Search"

Put the functionality into org.jabref.logic.importer.ParserFetcher#doPostCleanup.

One needs to move the functionality of org.jabref.gui.journals.UndoableAbbreviator#abbreviate to a cleanup action. This is also done at #11791 (comment), but I don't know, when this is finished.

[MattBryantt]

To clarify, should the functionality for the second subtask:

* Fetchers automatically convert the api responses to adhere to this setting

be placed in org.jabref.logic.importer.ParserFetcher#doPostCleanup as mentioned? Or is this only referring to the now separate 3rd subtask? If so, I'm confused as to where the functionality for abbreviating journals should be placed. The most relevant fetcher I can identify is org.jabref.logic.importer.fetcher.JournalInformationFetcher, however this doesn't currently access the ImporterPreferences (to check if a user wants to have abbreviated journals as per the first subtask), so I am unsure about this approach. Thanks!

[koppor]

To clarify, should the functionality for the second subtask:\n\n* Fetchers automatically convert the api responses to adhere to this setting\nbe placed in org.jabref.logic.importer.ParserFetcher#doPostCleanup as mentioned

Yes.

See https://devdocs.jabref.org/code-howtos/fetchers.html for information about fetchers. Maybe you can try out some to see that nearly all of them return @article.