abbrevr: An R package to abbreviate journal titles based on the ISO 4 standard

An outline of the ISO 4 rules for abbreviation can be found here, and a text file containing the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA) can be found here.

Installation

Install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("patrickbarks/abbrevr")

Usage

Abbreviate individual titles:

library(abbrevr)

AbbrevTitle("Transactions of the American Fisheries Society")
#> [1] "Trans. Am. Fish. Soc."
AbbrevTitle("Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift")
#> [1] "Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr."
AbbrevTitle("L'Intermédiaire des Mathématiciens")
#> [1] "Interméd. Math."

Use rcrossref library to extract citation info for a set of DOIs, then abbreviate journal titles using abbrevr:

# load rcrossref
library(rcrossref)

# DOIs for a set of scientific publications
dois <- c(
  "10.1577/T09-174.1",
  "10.1371/journal.pone.0075858",
  "10.1111/1365-2435.12359",
  "10.1111/jeb.12823",
  "10.1111/1365-2745.12937"
)

# use rcrossref::cr_cn() to get citation info for DOIs
citations <- rcrossref::cr_cn(dois, format = "citeproc-json")

# extract journal titles from citation info
titles <- sapply(citations, function(x) x$`container-title`, USE.NAMES = FALSE)

# use abbrevr::AbbrevTitle() to abbreviate titles
titles_short <- sapply(titles, abbrevr::AbbrevTitle, USE.NAMES = FALSE)

# print data.frame
data.frame(
  doi = dois,
  title = titles,
  title_short = titles_short,
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

#>                          doi                                          title           title_short
#>            10.1577/T09-174.1 Transactions of the American Fisheries Society Trans. Am. Fish. Soc.
#> 10.1371/journal.pone.0075858                                       PLoS ONE              PLoS ONE
#>      10.1111/1365-2435.12359                             Functional Ecology          Funct. Ecol.
#>            10.1111/jeb.12823                Journal of Evolutionary Biology        J. Evol. Biol.
#>      10.1111/1365-2745.12937                             Journal of Ecology              J. Ecol.

Caveats

The current version…

only handles common articles, prepositions, and conjunctions in English, German, and French (ISO 4 dictates that these classes should generally be ommitted, with exceptions noted in the document linked above)
omits all punctuation except for hyphens (ISO 4 dictates all punctuation except commas should be retained, but periods should be replaced with commas)
does not omit generic identifiers such as “Section”, “Series”, or “Part” (ISO 4 dictates such generics should be ommitted unless required for identification)
may not retain all diacritic marks (ISO 4 dictates that all diacritic marks should be retained)

Also beware of abbreviation rules that are difficult to implement algorithmically, e.g.:

names of persons should not be abbreviated
prepositions and articles should be retained if they are integral parts of proper names (e.g. “Los Alamos”) or locutions (e.g. “in vivo”)

License

patrickbarks/abbrevr

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