I was wondering whether there is any way to change single entries in a bibliography. I want the cite command to give me a short version of this very long entry. I know I could change it manually in the *.bbl-file, but it would constantly be overwritten. Any solutions, suggestions or even a faint idea how to do this? Would biblatex offer something?
\begin{filecontents}{testbib.bib}
@book{long,
author={{Very long long long long author}},
title={Title},
publisher={Publisher},
year={2011},
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
\cite{long}
\bibliographystyle{natdin}
\bibliography{testbib}
\end{document}