Error: collapse years and forthcoming publications (via status) punctuation
I came across a minor error in punctuation when citing multiple works including years and forthcoming papers. This is what is generated:
This is presumably what should be generated:
In my style, I have
Given that the collapsing happens automatically and the details aren't specified in the style, as far as I know, I think this is an error overlooked somewhere in the code of Zotero itself because forthcoming dates are not fully/automatically supported yet.
Or is there a reason that (e.g., in some styles) there would be a distinction between the punctuation for years and non-year dates?
Note: the "forthcoming" 'date' is being supplied by the
(Author 2013, 2014, 2018; forthcoming)
This is presumably what should be generated:
(Author 2013, 2014, 2018, forthcoming)
In my style, I have
<citation ... collapse="year">
Given that the collapsing happens automatically and the details aren't specified in the style, as far as I know, I think this is an error overlooked somewhere in the code of Zotero itself because forthcoming dates are not fully/automatically supported yet.
Or is there a reason that (e.g., in some styles) there would be a distinction between the punctuation for years and non-year dates?
Note: the "forthcoming" 'date' is being supplied by the
status:
value in the Extra field. ("forthcoming" is also entered as the date as a backup in Date, but changing that to other text, e.g. "in press", doesn't seem to have an effect on how this is displayed in cites.) This is an old discussion that has not been active in a long time. Before commenting here, you should strongly consider starting a new discussion instead. If you think the content of this discussion is still relevant, you can link to it from your new discussion.
@adamsmith @fbennett This seems like a bug in citeproc-js--collapse="year" should collapse both 'issued' and 'status'.