Word plug-in does not insert "n.d."

ben.meier

The word plug-in with "Frontiers in Education" selected as the style produces
– (Author, 2000) for references with a date and
– (Author) [without "n.d."] for references without a date.

If I understood right (https://www.frontiersin.org/guidelines/author-guidelines#harvard-reference-style), "Frontiers in Education" is based on "Chicago Manual of Style (author-date)" [which I also don't know].
"Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (author-date)" produces (Author 2000) and (Author n.d.) [without a comma]. Which seems to be correct (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html).

So I think, that there are two mistakes in "Frontiers in Education":
1) A falsely comma in (Author, 2000) and
2) A missing " n.d." in (Author).

I'm not sure, if there are any differences between the multiple Frontiers styles and "Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (author-date)" or "Vancouver". Or have been in 2017. Maybe just all Frontiers styles "should" be removed?

damnation

1. comma in text:
We usually go by typeset papers. If you look at recently published papers you can clearly see a comma. E.g.
"...electron shells or orbitals (Taber, 2005; Stefani and Tsaparlis, 2009) but n..."

See: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2022.1034140/full


2. n.d.

The guidelines are relatively short and looking at a bunch of papers I didn't see "n.d." anywhere. If you happen to have an example where that's used (ideally open access), please do share.


https://www.frontiersin.org/guidelines/author-guidelines#references

ben.meier

I found "n.d." here:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2022.959215/full

damnation

Excellent.
Have a go with this style: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/69a936a029e7c9e97e8aee6f8ae67d4c15fa1629/frontiers.csl