Hi,

It is a common practice to use short forms of titles for bibliographic
entries after they are cited the first time. Another practice is to use
abbreviations for journal names and book series (generally for citations in
the text, but possibly also in the references list), with a separate "List
of Abbreviations" provided to cross-reference the abbreviations and full
names. I think that these practices could be accommodated with multiple
bibliographies that contain short and long forms for corresponding entries,
but I wanted to ask: is there a simpler or preferred way to do this in
ConTeXt?

To illustrate what I mean, the biblatex-sbl package (
https://github.com/dcpurton/biblatex-sbl), which implements the SBL
citation style for (Xe)LaTeX, handles this using additional fields like
"shorttitle," "shortjournal," and "shortseries," so for the BibTeX-style
bibliographic entry

@book{Blau2010,
    author = {Joshua Blau},
    title = {Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew},
    shorttitle = {Phonology},
    series = {Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic},
    shortseries = {LSAWS},
    volume = {2},
    location = {Winona Lake, IN},
    publisher = {Eisenbrauns},
    year = {2010}
}

the initial in-text citation (in SBL style) would look something like

Joshua Blau, *Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew*, LSAWS 2 (Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2010),

while subsequent in-text citations would look like

Blau, *Phonology*.

A separate list of abbreviations would then list "LSAWS" alongside
"Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic" (and likewise for other
journal/series abbreviations).

Thank you!

Joey