When one insert a new bibliographic entry in OOo, one has to define the
abreviation that will be inserted within the text as a reference to the
bibliography which is usually at the bottom of the document. This abbreviation
is defined by the user and is set once and for all.

The issue is that when you put several references, they appear as, eg:
(Bourdieu, 1977)(Friedberg, 1993). If abbreviations where automatically
generated, one would have had (Bourdieu, 1977; Friedberg, 1993) which is better
from an academic point of view.
The same occurs when one quotes various book from the same author: (Bourdieu,
1977)(Bourdieu, 1995) is incorrect, (Bourdieu, 1977, 1995) is correct.
And the same goes on when an author has written several things during the same
year: abbreviations should be automatically generated to have Bourdieu 1995a,
1995b, etc.

It would be very great if OOo were able to automatically generate bibliographic
abbreviations, as does BibTeX for example. I've set the priority to 4, as
academic researchers, though they recognize the power of bibliographic tool,
would not use it because abbreviation system is bad.

Keep up the good work anyway!