Extra "by " after reviewed author

nickbart · April 16, 2015

When using either chicago-author-date.csl or apa.csl, an extra "by " is inserted after the reviewed-author:

Reviewer, Rob. 2015. “A Clever Title.” Review of My First Book, by Ann Authorby . Journal of This and That 15 (3): 244–48.

The style files look ok, see https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/chicago-author-date.csl#L217 and https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/apa.csl#L202.

This, the fact that deleting chicago-author-date.csl#L217 leads to the removal of both "by "s, and the fact that pandoc-citeproc does not insert this extra "by " with either of the two styles might suggest this could be a citeproc-js issue rather than a style issue, but I’m not sure, of course. Any ideas?

fbennett · April 19, 2015

Thanks for this report (and apologies - looking back through forum posts, I see it was first reported months ago).

It was a bug (hopeful use of the past tense there). I haven't traced out the exact logic, but I've made a simple fix that looks right, and everything in the test suite still passes. The revised processor will be posted to BitBucket shortly as version 1.1.9.

https://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/commits/all

nickbart · April 20, 2015

Great, thanks. The earlier report (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/97/2/book-reviews-another-item-type/) was about something else though: the "by" in front of the reviewed author rendered as expected by citeproc-js but not by pandoc-citeproc. This turned out to be a pandoc-citeproc bug, not falling back from the verb-short to the verb term (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-citeproc/issues/72).

fbennett · April 21, 2015

And I was so eager to clip two birds with one stone. Next time!