American Journal of Botany citation error

leifr7 · September 25, 2014

Hello, I need help with what appears to be an error in the style sheet for American Journal of Botany. The convention is to place a period after the name(s) of the author(s) and before the year. When a journal article has a single author, the initials follow the last name, each punctuated with a period, but a period is also added to separate authors from year, resulting in two periods rather than one. (This is not a problem when there are multiple authors because the last in the list will have the surname at the end, resulting in a single period to end the list.)

Here's an example:

HEINRICH, B.. 2004. Bumblebee economics. Revised edition. Harvard University Press.

Is it possible to get a fix for this?
Thank you!
Leif

adamsmith · September 25, 2014

The problem isn't the style. This shouldn't be possible in Zotero ever, I'll see what happened.

adamsmith · September 26, 2014

The duplicate punctuation you are seeing should be addressed by the latest CSL processor release. You will need Zotero for Firefox to test it. If you could check that it does solve the problem, it would be a great help.

Test by installing the CSL processor patch plugin
http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/zotero-processor.xpi
alongside Zotero for Firefox (the plugin will not work in Standalone). The only effect of the plugin is to swap in the latest version of the processor; you can (and should) remove it when Zotero is next updated.

Let us know how it goes. If this resolves the issue, it should make it into the next Zotero release.

(via fbennett)