# Journal Abbreviations

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/journal-abbreviations/428>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [February 15, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/journal-abbreviations/428 "2008-02-15T03:31:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simon\_Kornblith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Simon\_Kornblith1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Simon_Kornblith1)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/journal-abbreviations/428/1 "2008-02-15T03:31:32Z")

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It’s recently been brought to my attention that some journals use  
abbreviations with periods (“Exp. Brain Res.”) while others omit the  
periods (“Exp Brain Res”). Are there any objections to adding an  
option to the CSL schema to handle this? Alternatively, we could also  
allow the include-period attribute on variables, but I’m not  
sure this is necessary.

Simon

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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:** [February 15, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/journal-abbreviations/428/2 "2008-02-15T13:26:06Z")

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Simon Kornblith wrote:

> It’s recently been brought to my attention that some journals use  
> abbreviations with periods (“Exp. Brain Res.”) while others omit the  
> periods (“Exp Brain Res”). Are there any objections to adding an  
> option to the CSL schema to handle this?

What would the option be? Specific to journals, or general to all  
abbreviations?

Bruce

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Kornblith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Simon\_Kornblith](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Simon_Kornblith)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/journal-abbreviations/428/3 "2008-02-17T22:58:18Z")

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I think specific to journals. I’m not sure what other abbreviations  
there are that it could apply to.

Of course, it may still be a while before I get to implementing this  
in Zotero, but it seems like something that should be there.

Simon