Bug: Author names from ASCE Journals

jamesdg · February 17, 2020

When using the importer, journals from the American Society of Civil Engineers get read in wrong. Specifically, author names are read in as

lastname firstname middlename

Rather than

firstname middlename lastname
or
lastname, firstname middlename

It's not a life-destroying inconvenience to fix the name when importing these papers, but if it's an easy fix it would be much appreciated!

dstillman · February 17, 2020

Can you provide an example URL?

jamesdg · February 17, 2020

Yes -- should have done that first time around

http://ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000570
http://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001190

adamsmith · February 18, 2020

We can try, but the problem is the journal's RIS export (under "Download Citation"):

AU  - Giuliani Matteo
AU  - Castelletti Andrea
AU  - Pianosi Francesca
AU  - Mason Emanuele
AU  - Reed Patrick M.

Zotero uses that and it's obviously missing commas after the last name, which makes import messy at best, so if you could also contact the publisher, that'd be great.

jamesdg · February 18, 2020

Thanks, I’ll contact them as well. Good to pinpoint where this is coming from

adamsmith · February 18, 2020

We do have an existing ticket for this https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/1971 (which is no guarantee it'll get fixed super-soon on our end)