Extra leading space for subsequent citations (MHRA)

pms47

My wife is using Zotero and the Word plugin for her thesis. She is using the MHRA style. Everything works fine until she adds a subsequent citation and suppresses the author. The footnote then ends up with an extra leading space (between the footnote number and the citation). If the author is not suppressed the footnote is fine. Any ideas why this might be happening.

I had a look at the MHRA csl file but couldn't find any obvious problems. A question; when the author is suppressed, is the author field temporarily removed from that citation before being styled according to the csl file? If not how does the suppression work?

It's not a huge problem as this can be dealt with manually at the end by detaching the word file from Zotero and removing the spaces but it would be nice if it could be fixed.

Thanks,
Pedro

fbennett

With author suppression, the author variable is suppressed in input before running the CSL. It's a little tricky; I would have to look to be sure, but I think a cite with an author and an editor, when run with suppress-author, will render nothing for the creator (as opposed to a cite with no author and an editor, which will render the editor in that position).

In this case, the CSL for the MHRA style left a leading comma and space on the title when rendering a cite without an author, editor or translator variable. I've updated the CSL for the style to behave a little more gracefully, and the update should appear in the repository soon.

adamsmith

(once the style appears - check the timestam on the repository - update your local copy by re-installing from the repository and in your existing document(s) switch to a different citation style and back for the change to take effect).