Writing the report for my current project, I came across the problem of finding appropriate abbreviations for titles of journals and conferences. So for example one should write "Ann." instead of "Annals", "Conf." instead of "Conference on", etc.
mrabbrev.bib can be used to substitute keywords with abbreviated journal titles. Just include it in your main latex file as described in this example. However, for me this is not a handy solution, since I import most of the BibTeX key from the web sources like CiteSeerX instead of writing them manually.
So I decided to write the abbreviations by hand. I found this IEEE Computer Society Style Guide very useful together with this abbreviation list created by Dr. Mark Wilson from School of Mechanical Engineering at University of Leeds.
Does anybody have a better idea how to deal with abbreviations in BibTeX?
