[texhax] string definition - abbreviations for journals in a bib file

[Olga Lyashevska]

Thanks Herbert,
You are very helpful. I really appreciate it.

Cheers,
Olga

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 15:47 +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: 
> Am 14.02.2011 15:34, schrieb Olga Lyashevska:
> 
> > But if I compile (many times) I get this:
> > 
> > This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2010)
> > The top-level auxiliary file: ecological_indicators.aux
> > The style file: elsarticle-harv.bst
> > Database file #1: ../../work/ReferencesJabRef.bib
> > Warning--string name "jvs" is undefined
> > --line 16 of file ../../work/ReferencesJabRef.bib
> > Database file #2: ../../work/Journals.bib
> > Warning--empty journal in Botta-Dukat2005
> > 
> > And resulting output without journal:
> > Botta-Dukat, Z., Wilson, J. B., Oct. 2005. Rao’s quadratic entropy as a
> > measure of functional diversity based on multiple traits 16 (5), 533–540
> > 
> > I thought that we eliminated all problems but something is still missing.
> 
> here is a working example:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{filecontents}
> \begin{filecontents*}{demo.bib}
> @STRING{JVS = "J.Veg.Sci."}
> @article{foo,
> title={bar},
> journal=JVS,
> author={Me},
> year=2010
> }
> \end{filecontents*}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> foo~\cite{foo}
> 
> \bibliographystyle{plain}
> \bibliography{demo}
> \end{document}
>