Organization acronym in citation and bibliography

Question

In my document, there is a reference to an organization that needs to be shown as Office International des Epizooties (OIE), 2012.... But in in-text citation, I need it to show as OIE, 2012.
To achieve this, I used author={{Office International des Epizooties (OIE)}} in bib, but that outputs the whole name in in-text citation (Office International des Epizooties (OIE), 2012). I have tried author={{Office International des Epizooties}}, shortauthor={{OIE}}, but it does not work, probably because I am using natbib package.
Any Ideas?

Nico · Accepted Answer

Since you didn't provide much information, I can only give you a hint how it might work under natbib: You can create an alias for citing with defcitealias{yourTag}{OIE, 2012} and then quote it in the text with citetalias{yourTag} (printed without brackets) or citepalias{yourTag} (printed with brackets). Then the alias is printed instead of the author. *yourTag is the reference name you gave the entry in your bib-file.
Here is an MWE, to show you how it could work:
documentclass{article} 
usepackage{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}
@article{oie,
    author={{Office International des Epizooties (OIE)}},
    title = {The title of the book},
    year = {2020}
}
end{filecontents}
usepackage{natbib}
defcitealias{oie}{OIE, 2012}

begin{document}
section*{Section with citations}
verb|cite{oie}|: cite{oie}
verb|citetalias{oie}|: citetalias{oie}
verb|citepalias{oie}|: citepalias{oie}

bibliographystyle{plainnat}
bibliography{jobname}

end{document}

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