2.1 b2 PubMed import Jr. Sr. III etc.

DWL-SDCA

Perhaps I misunderstood but I thought that the Zotero 2.1 with CSL 1 would import and store the author name suffix when the source provided the information. Am I mistaken? Am I missing something? Is this a simple translator issue? The PubMed data structure seems to provide the suffix as a separate entity. Yet, I don't see the author suffix within the name area of Zotero when I import a record with an an author name containing a suffix. I don't see a place for the suffix within the Zotero author display. I'm using 2.1b2, FF 3.6.12, OS X 10.6.4.

fbennett

It's just a translator issue; the suffix will render in citations if it is in the input data. The format is described here (edit: Zotero 2.1 does set the parse-names toggle when running the processor):

http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/citeproc-doc.html#id28

ajlyon

So what is the translator supposed to do to make this work?

fbennett

Just retrieve the suffix, and append it to the given name with a leading comma + space. Something like:name.given += ", " + suffix;(If I have the key for the given name in a Zotero name object right there.) The processor will take care of the rest.

Edit: Sorry, this would be more robust, wouldn't it:name.given = [name.given, suffix].join(", ");

ajlyon

Thanks. I'll look into adding this to the Pubmed translator.

ajlyon

Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/NCBI PubMed.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data). Try it out and see if this fixes things for you.

DWL-SDCA

The new PubMed translator imports name suffixes and doesn't seem to introduce any problems. This is great!! All within 24 hours.

Thank you.

ajlyon

Does this now work with citations correctly?

DWL-SDCA

Yes. I tested it with several different numbered and author/date styles (in-text and bib).

ajlyon

Checked in to the repository (https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/7336).