Let bibtex declare and use acronyms in reference section

Question

Suppose I have a two (or, in fact, an arbitrary number of) bibtex entries as follows:

@inproceeding{one,author = {Paul Elk}, title = {Moo}, series = {The Original Oak Likes Our Natural Ginseng}, ...}

@inproceeding{one,author = {Darma Shian}, title = {Waf}, series = {The Original Oak Likes Our Natural Ginseng}, ...}

As you may guess, the series name takes a lot of room in the references section.

I know there is a way (but I can't find it any more) to have latex/bibtex work so that the end result looks like:

[1] Paul Elk. Moo. In ..., volume 1 of The Original Oak Likes Our Natural Ginseng (henceforth 'TOOLONG'), 1942.
[2] Darma Shian, Waf, In ..., volume 2 of TOOLONG, 1955.

Ideally, that would work for any number of entries, whatever order they appear in. It is ok for me to choose the acronym, no need to infer it computationally.

Answer 1

In the bib file write

series={\toolong}

and in your document say

\newcommand{\toolong}{The Original Oak Likes Our Natural Ginseng
  (henceforth `TOOLONG')\gdef\toolong{TOOLONG}}

In the .bbl file you'll have \toolong in all the entries; the first one will be written fully and then it will redefine \toolong.

This can be done completely in the .bib file with a @preamble entry:

@preamble{"\newcommand{\toolong}{The Original Oak Likes Our Natural Ginseng (henceforth `TOOLONG')\gdef\toolong{TOOLONG}}"