Package org.biojava.bibliography

Class BiblioJournal

java.lang.Object

org.biojava.bibliography.BiblioJournal

public class BiblioJournal
extends Object

A class describing journals. The citations referring to the journal articles have a reference to this class. There are only few explicit attributes defined, the rest are accessible using dynamic properties.

Since:

1.3

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Martin Senger

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
String	abbreviation	An abbreviation of the journal title.
String	issn	A standard number for journals.
String	name	A journal title.
Hashtable	properties	Additional properties used when the explicit attributes are not sufficient.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
BiblioJournal()

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

properties

public Hashtable properties

Additional properties used when the explicit attributes are not sufficient.

name

public String name

A journal title. The list of available titles can be provided using a controlled vocabulary, taken, for example, from MEDLINE Journals. Such controlled vocabulary should be named BibRefSupport.JOURNAL_TITLES.

issn

public String issn

A standard number for journals.

Be aware, however, that in the real world even this attribute may change over time. Therefore, it is not suitable as a primary unique identifier for journals.

abbreviation

public String abbreviation

An abbreviation of the journal title.

Note that some repositories use more abbreviation systems. For such cases, use dynamic properties for additional abbreviations.

An example for biological journals is in Biological Journals and Abbreviations.

A controlled vocabulary with abbreviation should be named BibRefSupport.JOURNAL_ABBREV.

Constructor Detail

BiblioJournal

public BiblioJournal()