AbbrevTerm: Abbreviate a word within a journal title based on the ISSN's...

In patrickbarks/abbrevr: Abbreviate Journal Titles Using The ISO 4 Standard

Description

Abbreviate a word within a journal title based on the ISSN's List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA).

NOTE: this function only abbreviates single terms, not full titles. It is a helper function called by AbbrevTitle.

Usage

AbbrevTerm(x, check = TRUE)

Arguments

x	A single word from a journal title, in the form of a string.
check	A logical indicating whether to check for an abbreviation (if TRUE), or always return the original word (if FALSE). This is a convenience argument that simplifies vectorization within the function AbbrevTitle.

Value

A string reflecting the abbreviated form of x, or, if check == FALSE or no abbreviation is found, the original x.

Author(s)

Patrick Barks <[e-mail]>

See Also

AbbrevTitle

Examples

AbbrevTerm("Canadian")
AbbrevTerm("journal")
AbbrevTerm("Entomology")
AbbrevTerm("medical")
AbbrevTerm("PLoS")
AbbrevTerm("Acuático")
AbbrevTerm("Investigación")
AbbrevTerm("Investigación", check = FALSE)

## Not run: 
# argument should be a single word (i.e. a string with no spaces)
# use function AbbrevTitle() to abbreviate a full title
AbbrevTerm("Canadian Journal of Entomology")

## End(Not run)

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