geoffrey.williams wrote:
>
> Maybe that this just shows that in using abbreviations which are
> unnecessarily giving extra work to our librarians and archivist as, as
> time goes by, some of our published bibiographies will become more
> obscure. I shall have to be more careful when I shorthand IJL and IJCL.
Actually, journal title abbreviations are very easy to find except when
the journal never had an ISSN number and was never cited often enough with
a particular abbreviation to make it into anybody's database.
Published bibliographies are becoming less and less useful as more and
more citations are being listed online. Certainly, I wouldn't worry about
using abbreviations in ongoing work, since practically all new citations
are listed online. It's still a good idea to use the most current
abbreviation for a journal if there is one, though.
-- Mark
Mark P. Line
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX
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