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Wai Chen writes:

>I am preparing a manuscript to be sent to a journal (Journal of Molecular
>Biology, JMB).  The style of JMB requires that journal names appearing in
the
>references are abbreviated according to the American Chemical Society
Service
>Source Index.  The ACSSSI does not abbreviate journal names that are single
>words (eg. Science).
>
>The problem is, the JMB style requires that:
>
>(1) if the journal name is abbreviated, there is already a dot (fullstop)
at
>the end and no further comma is used to separate the journal name and the
>volume;
>(2) if the journal name is not abbreviated, a comma is used to separate the
>journal name and the volume.

I suppose you could do this with the Journal Abbreviations file, although
it's not really meant to be used in that way.  Basically, you should create
a column of abbreviations that include the comma when appropriate, and the
period when appropriate.  Then set the JMB style's journal abbreviation to
use that column, and the journal name should not have any punctuation after
it.  When you format with the JMB style, it will work according to the JMB
rules.

I hope this helps,

Avi Rappoport

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