# also, short title?

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/also-short-title/364>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [November 17, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/also-short-title/364 "2007-11-17T15:32:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/also-short-title/364/1 "2007-11-17T15:32:54Z")

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Also, do we need to add back a short title or a local ID element?

E.g.:

```
<title>American Psychological Association</title>
<shortTitle>APA</shortTitle>

```

… or:

```
<title>American Psychological Association</title>
<localID>apa</localID>

```

I’m in part thinking of a question I got about LaTeX integration, in  
which I was imagining associating a short label or id with the URI, such  
that one could do …

```
command --style=apa file.tex

```

… rather than the whole URI.

It may not really be necessary (e.g. not our problem); just wondering.

Bruce