This is JOURABBR.BIB, a BibTeX database file for the `adaptable' style
family, written by Hans-Hermann Bode (HHBODE at DOSUNI1.BITNET). Use jourabbr
as the first item in your \bibliography command, if journal names should be
written out abbreviated. You may edit this file to add more STRING
definitions for journal names or other purposes or to delete some that you
don't need.

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First of all we use a PREAMBLE command to put some stuff at the beginning
of the bibliography. Inputting of apreambl.tex is mandatory for the
adaptable styles and should always be done at the beginning of the preamble.
Next, a language switch---easier to use than that in apreamble.tex---is
defined and set appropriate, that can be used to distinguish between german
and all other languages; the same technique may be adapted to other
languages as well. The \sortby command is suggested in the BibTeX manual
(where it is called \noopsort) and is helpful to force sorting of certain
entries.

Caution: It is a good idea to leave this preamble intact, unless you know
what you are doing!

@PREAMBLE{"\input apreambl "
  # "\newif\ifger\gerfalse "
  # "\ifnum\language=\german\gertrue\fi "
  # "\ifnum\language=\austrian\gertrue\fi "
  # "\def\sortby#1{}"}

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The next three STRING definitions make it more convenient to distinguish
between german and other languages. Now you can say something like

  ifger # "Wird demn{\"a}chst erscheinen." # else # "To be published." # fi

in the NOTE field, say, of some database entry.

@STRING{ifger="{\ifger}"}
@STRING{else="{\else}"}
@STRING{fi="{\fi}"}

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Here are the definitions of abbreviated journal names from the plain style
family, that are lacking in the adaptable style files themselves (so you can
use your old databases with the adaptable styles as well). Complete this
list with strings you need for additional journal names, publishing
companies or whatever.

@STRING{acmcs="ACM Comput. Surv."}
@STRING{acta="Acta Inf."}
@STRING{cacm="Commun. ACM"}
@STRING{ibmjrd="IBM J. Res. Dev."}
@STRING{ibmsj="IBM Syst.~J."}
@STRING{ieeese="IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng."}
@STRING{ieeetc="IEEE Trans. Comput."}
@STRING{ieeetcad="IEEE Trans. Comput.-Aided Design Integrated Circuits"}
@STRING{ipl="Inf. Process. Lett."}
@STRING{jacm="J.~ACM"}
@STRING{jcss="J.~Comput. Syst. Sci."}
@STRING{scp="Sci. Comput. Programming"}
@STRING{sicomp="SIAM J. Comput."}
@STRING{tocs="ACM Trans. Comput. Syst."}
@STRING{tods="ACM Trans. Database Syst."}
@STRING{tog="ACM Trans. Gr."}
@STRING{toms="ACM Trans. Math. Softw."}
@STRING{toois="ACM Trans. Office Inf. Syst."}
@STRING{toplas="ACM Trans. Prog. Lang. Syst."}
@STRING{tcs="Theoretical Comput. Sci."}

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That's it!

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