How to get abbreviations of the bibliography into the list of shorthands?

Question

I wish to build a list of shorthands that also contains abbreviations used inside the bibliography (I am especially thinking of the shortjournal-field).

Consider the following example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{Lutzeier1983,
Author = {Peter Rolf Lutzeier},
Journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Sprachwissenschaft},
Shortjournal = {ZfS},
Pages = {45-71},
Shorttitle = {Wortfelder},
Title = {Wortfelder als Ma{\ss}stab f{\"u}r Interpretationen an Beispielen des Feldes der Stimmungen im Deutschen},
Volume = {2},
Year = {1983},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{Lutzeier1983}

\printshorthands
\printbibliography
\end{document}

I would like biblatex to build up the list of shorthands automatically by using the fields journal and shortjournal. How can I tell biblatex to treat the field shortjournal in a similar way like the field shorthand?

The only possibility I can think of is to manually add an entry like

@book{AbkZfS,
Options = {skipbib=true},
Shorthand = {ZfS},
Title = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Sprachwissenschaft}}

to the bib-file and the command

\nocite{AbkZfS} 

to the tex-file. Is there a more convenient way to get a list of shorthands including a line like "Zfs = Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Sprachwissenschaft"?

Thank you!

Answer 1

This is possible since biblatex 2.9/biber 1.9. The whole \printshorthands facility was revised and generalised when using biber. All the details are in the PDF manual and there is a new example file (92-bibliographylists.tex) that comes with biblatex. \printshorthands is now implemented in terms of this new system. Here is an example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@ARTICLE{test1,
    AUTHOR = {John Smith},
    TITLE = {A Tremendously Interesting Opinion},
    SHORTHAND = {JSTIP},
    SHORTTITLE = {TIP},
    JOURNALTITLE = {Journal of Tremendously Interesting Opinions},
    SHORTJOURNAL = {JTIO},
    VOLUME = {1},
    NUMBER = {1},
    YEAR = {1947}
}
@ARTICLE{test2,
    AUTHOR = {John Tumble},
    TITLE = {A Tremendously Interesting Idea},
    SHORTHAND = {JSTII},
    SHORTTITLE = {TII},
    JOURNALTITLE = {Journal of Tremendously Interesting Ideas},
    SHORTJOURNAL = {JTII},
    VOLUME = {1},
    NUMBER = {1},
    YEAR = {1946}
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\DeclareBibliographyDriver{shortjournal}{%
  \printfield{journaltitle}}

\DeclareBibliographyDriver{shorttitle}{%
  \printfield{title}}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

\printshorthands% With biber, just an alias for \printbiblist{shorthand}
\printbiblist[title={Journal Shorthands}]{shortjournal}
\printbiblist[title={Title Shorthands}]{shorttitle}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Which results in:

If you need to make sure any such lists have unique keys, a bibcheck is automatically created and named after the list and so if you had multiple entries in the same journal with the same shortjournaltitle, you would get duplicate entries and could address this with:

\let\sjnames\relax
\defbibcheck{shortjournal}{%
  \xifinlist{\thefield{shortjournal}}\sjnames
    {\skipentry}
    {\listxadd\sjnames{\thefield{shortjournal}}}}

Answer 2

Considering PLK's comment, here is a workaround you can use in the meantime. Unfortunately shorthands for journal titles will still need to be specified as separate entries (of the type customa), but it takes care of invoking \nocite for you.

The solution also allows you to omit journaltitle in article entries with a shortjournal field. The long title can be recovered using \entrydata. This is demonstrated below with Muller's article.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,sorting=nty]{biblatex}

\DeclareBibliographyDriver{customa}{%
  \printfield{title}%
  \nopunct}

\AtEveryCitekey{%
  \iffieldundef{shortjournal}
    {}
    {\nocite{\thefield{shortjournal}}}}

\renewbibmacro*{journal}{%
  \iffieldundef{shortjournal}
    {\iffieldundef{journaltitle}
       {}
       {\printtext[journaltitle]{%
          \printfield[titlecase]{journaltitle}%
          \setunit{\subtitlepunct}%
         \printfield[titlecase]{journalsubtitle}}}}
    {\printfield{shortjournal}}}

\newbibmacro*{journal:long}{%
  \iffieldundef{journaltitle}
    {\iffieldundef{shortjournal}
       {}
       {\entrydata{\thefield{shortjournal}}
          {\printtext[journaltitle]{\printfield[titlecase]{title}}}}}
    {\printtext[journaltitle]{\printfield[titlecase]{journaltitle}}}}

\AtBeginShorthands{%
  \renewbibmacro*{journal}{\usebibmacro{journal:long}}}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@customa{WMQ,
  Shorthand = {WMQ},
  Title = {William and Mary Quarterly}}
@customa{ZfS,
  Shorthand = {ZfS},
  Title = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Sprachwissenschaft}}
@customa{ZHF,
  Shorthand = {ZHF},
  Title = {Zeitschrift für historische Forschung}}
@article{Muller,
  Author = {J{\"o}rn M{\"u}ller},
  Shorthand = {Ergon},
  Shortjournal = {ZHF},
  Pages = {513-542},
  Title = {Ergon und eudaimonia},
  Volume = {57,4},
  Year = {2003}} 
@book{companion,
  Author = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander},
  Title = {The LaTeX Companion},
  Edition = {1},
  Publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  Location = {Reading, Mass.},
  Year = {1994}}
@article{Reese,
  Author = {Reese, Trevor R.},
  Title = {Georgia in Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy, 1736-1739},
  Journaltitle = {William and Mary Quarterly},
  Shortjournal = {WMQ},
  Volume = {15},
  Series = {3},
  Date = {1958},
  Pages = {168--190}}
@article{Lutzeier,
  Author = {Peter Rolf Lutzeier},
  Shorthand = {PRL},
  Journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Sprachwissenschaft},
  Shortjournal = {ZfS},
  Pages = {45-71},
  Shorttitle = {Wortfelder},
  Title = {Wortfelder als Ma{\ss}stab f{\"u}r Interpretationen an
    Beispielen des Feldes der Stimmungen im Deutschen},
  Volume = {2},
  Year = {1983}}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{companion,Muller,Lutzeier,Reese}
\printshorthands
\printbibliography[nottype=customa]
\end{document}