IEEE: strange symbols in the article title

lboccia · April 29, 2014

Recently, I've noticed a strange behaviour of Zotero translator with IEEE which I did not experience before.

Strange symbols appear in the article title such as "#x2013;".
To reproduce this bug, please try to download the citation of this article:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4530761&searchField=Search_All&queryText=A+Differential+Power+Divider+Using+Shielded+Broadside-Coupled+Striplines

You will notice what I mean looking at the article title. This error is not present when you try to download the same citation from Google Scholar.

zuphilip · April 29, 2014

Yes, I can confirm your problem. These are HTML entities http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html which actually shouldn't appear in the BibTeX file. Well, I guess we can adjust the translator for IEEE Xplore...

lboccia · April 29, 2014

I hope so. Thanks a lot.

zuphilip · April 29, 2014

I reported the error to the publisher IEEE. Let us see what they say, before changing the translator (cf. https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/724 )

zuphilip · April 29, 2014

Here is their respond:
"This issue has been corrected and should appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library in approximately 10-12 business days."

zuphilip · May 14, 2014

I checked the example again and it works now smoothly. Thank you IEEE!