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I found this post and it seems it's possible to do a regular expression match to replace journal names while creating the bibliographic entries. So I wrote a configuration file with this contents:

<map>
  <bibtex>
  BMAP_OVERWRITE 1
    <globalfield journal>
      BMAP_MATCH Physical\sReview
      BMAP_REPLACE "Phys. Rev."
    </globalfield>
  </bibtex>
</map>

but I get this error:

:4: parser error : Specification mandate value for attribute journal
    <globalfield journal>
                        ^

Any guidelines on how to solve this?

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aaragon
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1 Answers1

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The .conf file format has changed quite a bit since then,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
  <sourcemap>
    <maps datatype="bibtex" level="user">
      <map map_overwrite="1">
        <map_step map_field_source="journal" map_match="Physical\sReview" map_replace="Phys. Rev."/>
      </map>
    </maps>
  </sourcemap>
</config>

should do the right thing now.

The Biber documentation is a good place to start your research. Have a look at §3.1.2. The sourcemap option, pp. 13-20, esp. p. 17 where we have the example

<map map_overwrite="0">
  <map_step map_field_source="AUTHOR" />
  <map_step map_field_set="SORTNAME" map_origfieldval="1" map_final="1"/>
  <map_step map_field_source="SORTNAME" map_match="\A(.+?)\s+and. ∗ " map_replace="$1"/>
</map>

Of course you can also have a \DeclareSourcemap in your .tex document

\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps{
    \map{
      \step[fieldsource=journal, 
            match=\regexp{Physical\sReview},
            replace=\regexp{Phys. Rev.}]
    }
  }
}

which does the same, but is easier to keep track of, I find. It is easy to forget about a biber.conf and be confused about the output, with the sourcemapping done in the .tex file at least one is more likely to see the relevant code.

moewe
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