Loop over associative arrays by substring

In the following code, I create some associative arrays in a loop. The consist of two strings, a string identifier and a year. After creation, I want to access the arrays in a loop based on the identifier only.

#!/bin/bash

# Declare associative arrays of journal-year combinations
A_JOURNAL_LIST={JF,JFE,RFS}
B_JOURNAL_LIST={JBF,JFI,JMCB}
ALL_JOURNAL_LIST={JF,JFE,RFS,JBF,JFI,JMCB}
for year in {1998..2000} {2009..2011}
do
  eval "A_$year=($A_JOURNAL_LIST-$year) ;"
  eval "B_$year=($B_JOURNAL_LIST-$year) ;"
  eval "all_$year=($ALL_JOURNAL_LIST-$year) ;"
done  

for journal in A B all
do
  echo "${'$journal'_1999[@]}"
done

I got a bad substitution error all the time I try a lot of combinations. What's wrong?