Upgrade StorageMLA 8th edition CSL: unnecessary "publisher": info in "journal article" type bib entries
Our library has noticed that the MLA 8th edition style adds unnecessary publisher data to the bibliography entry for a journal articles.
We first saw this behavior in our Primo VE instance, which uses CSL to build its auto-generated citations. Example:
Nelson, Jason M., et al. “Test Anxiety and College Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, vol. 32, no. 6, SAGE Publications, Sept. 2014, pp. 548–57, doi:10.1177/0734282914521978.
"SAGE Publications" shouldn't be present.
The same thing happens on desktop Zotero. This example is saved via Zotero connector from the same Primo VE entry:
Nelson, Jason M., et al. “Test Anxiety and College Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, vol. 32, no. 6, SAGE Publications, 2014, pp. 548–57. suny-pla.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, doi:10.1177/0734282914521978.
In the latter case I can see in Zotero that the translator scrapes "Publisher: SAGE Publications" into the Extra field. I've written a fix for the MLA style that causes journal articles to skip the Publisher field:
But I don't know if this is the proper way to fix the problem -- is it more appropriate to fix the translator instead?
We first saw this behavior in our Primo VE instance, which uses CSL to build its auto-generated citations. Example:
Nelson, Jason M., et al. “Test Anxiety and College Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, vol. 32, no. 6, SAGE Publications, Sept. 2014, pp. 548–57, doi:10.1177/0734282914521978.
"SAGE Publications" shouldn't be present.
The same thing happens on desktop Zotero. This example is saved via Zotero connector from the same Primo VE entry:
Nelson, Jason M., et al. “Test Anxiety and College Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, vol. 32, no. 6, SAGE Publications, 2014, pp. 548–57. suny-pla.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, doi:10.1177/0734282914521978.
In the latter case I can see in Zotero that the translator scrapes "Publisher: SAGE Publications" into the Extra field. I've written a fix for the MLA style that causes journal articles to skip the Publisher field:
<macro name="publisher">
<choose>
<if type="article-journal">
</if>
<else>
<text variable="publisher"/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
But I don't know if this is the proper way to fix the problem -- is it more appropriate to fix the translator instead?