title: Automatically abbreviate authors' first names in LaTeX
body: <p>Using natbib/Latex/Bibtex, in the references section I get references with full first names like:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein. Binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions, and reversals. Technical Report 8, 1966.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I would like automatically abbreviated first names like:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>V. I. Levenshtein. Binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions, and reversals. Technical Report 8, 1966.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>If you have an idea how to do this I will be glad to hear.</p>