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I made a really rough script that does a bunch of transformations on bibtex files to have them be ready for use in academic papers:

1. Shorten author lists to 10 authors 2. Abbreviate journal names 3. Remove unneeded IDs and replace with doi links 4. Remove unneeded tags (file, abstract)

https://gist.github.com/joebentley/6e3e4198ea427545738a82021...

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> 2. Abbreviate journal names

This was exactly what I was going to suggest, it would be a great addition! And if someone from Overleaf is listening... ;)

> Shorten author lists to 10 authors

Normally the Bibtex style would automatically do that for you already, and it is configurable. And it would automatically append "et al" then. The templates of many conferences usually do that for you.

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