BibTeX: New entry for dictionary

Question

The publisher of my PhD wants me to cite dictionaries in my bibliography as follows :

DCECH = Corominal, Joan/Pascual, José Antonio, Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e histpánico, 6 vol., Madrid, Gredos, 1980-1991.

As a reference in the text, it should only show the abbreviation:

DCECH

I work with a modified version of ksfh_nat style that you can find here.

I guess I will have to add a new entry type for dictionaries, but I'm not sure how. The style would be exactly the same as for a book entry, with the only difference that the author has to be preceded by abbreviation =, which should also be the part to be cited.

A simplified version of my code is:

\documentclass[openany,ngerman]{book}
\usepackage[small]{dgruyter}
\usepackage{microtype}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[main=french,italian, spanish, portuguese, latin, greek]{babel}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}
Cf. \cite{DCECH}\\

\bibliographystyle{Bianca}
\bibliography{bibliographie}

\end{document}

And the bibliography entry could look like this:

@Book{DCECH,
abbreviation (?? category not yet existing) = {DCECH},
author       = {Joan Corominas and José Pascual},
title        = {Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico},
year         = {1980-1991},
publisher    = {Gredos},
address      = {6 vol., Madrid},
}

Could anyone help with this?

Answer 1

I suggest you proceed as follows. First, change the bib entry to

@Book{DCECH,
abbreviation = {DCECH}, 
author       = {Joan Corominas and José Antonio Pascual},
title        = {Diccionario Crítico Etimológico Castellano e Hispánico ({DCECH}), 6~vol.},
year         = {1980--1991},
publisher    = {Gredos},
address      = {Madrid},
}

(Aside: Is abbreviation a field name that's recognized by the Bibliography style you employ? I don't recognize it as a standard BibTeX field.)

Second, insert the following instruction in the preamble (after loading the natbib package):

\defcitealias{DCECH}{DCECH}

Third, use \citetalias{DCECH} instead of the usual \citet{DCECH} in the body of the document generate citation call-outs that say "DCECH" rather than "Corominas/Pascual (1980-1991)".

Answer 2

I added the following to my .bst file :

abbreviation

as a new entry type with following code :

`FUNCTION {format.book.abbreviation}
{ abbreviation
 "abbreviation" bibinfo.check
  duplicate$ empty$ 'skip$
  {
  }
 if$
}

and below FUNCTION{book}, before author empty$, I added following code :

abbreviation empty$ 'skip$ { "" duplicate$ empty$ 'skip$ { } if$ output.nonnull.nostate format.book.abbreviation output.nonnull.nostate " = " duplicate$ empty$ 'skip$ { } if$ output.nonnull.nostate } if$ new.block

Combined with the suggestion from Mico to use \defcitealias{DCECH}{DCECH}, I new get exactly the output I need :

DCECH = Corominal, Joan/Pascual, José Antonio, Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e histpánico, 6 vol., Madrid, Gredos, 1980-1991.

Now, the only problem left is that I have about 50 dictionaries in my bibliography and using \defcitetalias{}{} will create a very long list of definitions. Is there any way to simplify this or to create a command that will will cite the entry abbreviation instead of author.year ?