Repeat titles or publishers in bibliography where no author is available

runkelcorey

CSL question:

I maintain a style that has bibliography entries start with the CMOS 17 author-date citation (where position="first") before printing the entire normal CMOS bibliography entry.

ex: (Collinder 2018) Collinder, Avia. 2018. “Court Cases Complicate Finsac Wind-Up.”
Jamaica Gleaner, August 8, 2018, sec. Business.

This style works fine when an author is present. When no author is available, the citation prints fine, but it omits the author substitute (eg. for type="report" it doesn't reprint the title; for type="article-newspaper" it doesn't reprint the publication) though it keeps the punctuation surrounding that substitute.

ex: (Jamaica Gleaner 2018) “Court Cases Complicate Finsac Wind-Up.” 2018. , August 8, 2018, sec. Business.
where the correct form would be
(Jamaica Gleaner 2018) Jamaica Gleaner. 2018. “Court Cases Complicate Finsac Wind-Up.” August 8, 2018, sec. Business.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? From trial and error, I think I've located the problem in the contributors macro. Does the behavior of affect this? It seems to avoid printing a contributor twice.

Full style available: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/runkelcorey/693834eb7030b353955fd4ce666bf7e2/raw/97b3c8b95908dcd61e96bd5560e48a09fc31a982/ypfs-mini.csl

adamsmith

It seems to avoid printing a contributor twice.

Yes, this. If you want the label before the citation, you need to re-write the contributor macros using choose/if/if-else conditions instead of substitute. When a variable is called via substitute, it won't appear elsewhere in the citation.

runkelcorey

As always, thanks adamsmith

For anyone else who reads this, the key to getting disappearing those pesky extra commas is to play around with prefixes and suffixes rather than the group delimeters

bwiernik

You should generally avoid using affixes for commas and instead use group delimiters. Group delimiters won’t appear if they aren’t needed (unlike affixes).

runkelcorey

i understand the idea, but the execution eludes me here. replacing macro pre/suffixes with a group delimeter=". " ends up removing the ". " where I want it. possibly related to the group structure of my bibliography?

updated version: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/runkelcorey/693834eb7030b353955fd4ce666bf7e2/raw/f42a1b734a51de2d6ffad59de29b17fd4c8b271e/ypfs-mini.csl