"Frontiers journals" style: errors in the CSL

ben.meier
edited February 20, 2024
1) abbreviation for edition:
Frontiers uses "Edn" as an abbreviation for "edition" instead of "ed" as produced by the CSL. See https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1328675/full and search for "Edn"

2) abbreviation for editor (part of a whole):
For parts of a whole, Frontiers SOMETIMES uses "eds" instead of "eds." (without the period). Maybe someone can investigate this.
AUTHORNAME (YEAR). “TITLE,” in BOOKTITLE , eds EDITORNAMES OTHER_INFO

3) abbreviation for editor (of a whole work with no author provided):
When no author is provided, Frontiers uses "(ed.)" or "(eds.)" instead of "ed." or "eds." (with parentheses). I did not check if they are consistent here.
EDITORNAME (ed.) (YEAR). TITLE. OTHER_INFO
  • adamsmith
    Re: 2. You're saying you sometimes see eds and sometimes eds.? Given the volume of publication at Frontiers, I'd just ascribe that to sloppiness and stick with eds. throughout.
  • ben.meier
    4) Separation of volume, issue, and article number
    Frontiers uses a colon instead of a comma to separate these.

    5) Separation of book title and editors
    Frontiers separates the book title and the editors (before "eds") by a comma.

    6) Conference Paper
    Frontiers uses "TITLE," for conference papers as part of conference books. The quotation marks and comma is missing in the CSL.

    7) Capitalization of first word of sub title
    Frontiers SOMETIMES capitalizes the first letter of the sub title after the colon.

    8) Available online
    Frontiers SOMETIMES uses "Available online at" instead of "Available at".
  • ben.meier
    9) Separation for parts of books
    9.1) The style currently produces
    AUTHOR (YEAR). “TITLE,” in BOOKTITLE , eds. EDITORS OTHER_INFO
    with a space before the comma
    9.2) When the part of the book also includes a series title:
    (a) the series title is included in the citation, whereas the series title is not included when the whole book is cited. Maybe the series title should also be removed for parts of books? I don't know
    (b) If the series title should be printed, the separation should be fixed. Currently it is:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). “TITLE,” in BOOKTITLE SERIESTITLE. , eds. EDITORS OTHER_INFO
    with (1) no separation between the BOOKTITLE and the SERIESTITLE and (2) the string "period space comma space" after the SERIESTITLE
  • damnation
    Thank you for reporting the errors. They are very hard to follow though.
    It would be easier if you list them like:
    #x: book chapters
    current style
    required style
    description

    1) fixed
    2) --
    3) --
    4) Their guidelines show two different examples with different styles. Our style produces:
    Campbell, J. L., and Pedersen, O. K. (2007). The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success. Comp. Polit. Stud. 40, 307–332. doi: 10.1177/0010414006286542
    which is in accordance with published papers.

    5) I assume you mean a book chapter. Fixed.
    6) paper-conference: need an example
    7) not a style issue
    8) not an issue


    Guidelines: https://www.frontiersin.org/guidelines/author-guidelines (caveat: the link describes an author-date and a numeric style. easy to mix)

    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/d8cb6849397ad19868049e29ac808156ead2404c/frontiers.csl
  • ben.meier
    edited February 21, 2024
    Thank you for your feedback. It would be much easier to report, if I had the test data you use. (I am quite sure you have some and it might be somewhere in the git repository, but where?)

    3)
    I checked this and they are consistent.

    is:
    EDITOR ed. (YEAR). TITLE. ...
    should be
    EDITOR (ed.). (YEAR). TITLE. ... resp.
    EDITOR (Ed.). (YEAR). TITLE. ... resp.
    EDITOR (eds.). (YEAR). TITLE. ... resp.
    EDITOR (Eds.). (YEAR). TITLE. ...
    description:
    (a) parenthesis and one period are missing, (b) unclear if it should be capitalized

    Search for "eds" or "(ed" or similar:

    Given, L. M. (ed.). (2008). The Sage encyclopedia of qualitative research methods. SAGE Publications.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1271245

    Aitzhanova, Aktoty, Katsu, Shigeo, Linn, Johannes F., and Yezhov, Vladislav(Eds.). (2014). Kazakhstan 2050: Toward a modern society for all. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
    and
    Jonassen, D. H., and Land, S. M. (Eds.). (2000). Theoretical foundations of learning environments. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
    both https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1284305

    Tytler, R., Prain, V., Hubber, P., and Waldrip, B. (Eds.). (2013b). Constructing representations to learn in science. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media
    and
    Mayer, R. E. (Ed.). (2005). The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1308117

    Hambleton, R. K., Merenda, P., and Spielberger, C. (Eds.). (2005). Adapting educational and psychological tests for cross-cultural assessment. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence S. Erlbaum Publishers.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1303617

    4)
    The style is correctly producing VOLUME:ARTICLENO and completely ignoring the issue.
    (Some article numbers are that short, that I mixed them up with issue numbers)

    6)
    is:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). TITLE. in BOOKTITLE , eds. EDITORS ...
    should be:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). "TITLE," in BOOKTITLE, eds. EDITORS ...
    description:
    (a) missing quotation marks and comma, (b) space issue as described in (9)

    Searched for a quotation mark and found:

    Wilkenfeld, J. N., Yan, B., Huang, J., Luo, G., and Algas, K. (2022). “‘AI love you': Linguistic convergence in human-chatbot relationship development,” in Academy of Management Proceedings (Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management) 17063. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.17063abstract
    and all other references here https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1166682

    All references here:
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1102085 (only book chapter)
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1267658 (very current)

    Just to be transparent: The comma is missing in these articles' references for book-chapters and conference-papers:
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1206936
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1097993
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1171513
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1111934
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1104633
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129299
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1175703 (current; only chapter)
    But I would assume this an error.
    Sometimes with comma and sometimes without:
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1096151

    Ok, in fact I found many examples where the comma is missing (for both, book-chapters and conference-papers), but their author guidelines tell to set a comma and some typeset articles do so.
    Nevertheless, conference-papers are typeset just as book-chapters.

    9)
    still open (just a reminder)
  • ben.meier
    @demnation I just want to make sure you didn't miss my reply.
  • DWL-SDCA
    Styles creation is accomplished by volunteers. There is always a queue.
  • damnation
    I had seen it, but I had asked you to follow a specific format as I just don't have the time (and patience) to decipher a huge block of information. So, it's not on the top of my list, I'm afraid.
  • ben.meier

    Sorry, I did not get the part "please provide the entry type". Please see below.

    It would be much easier to report, if I had the test data you use. (I am quite sure you have some and it might be somewhere in the git repository, but where?)

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    3)
    entry type: book
    current style:
    EDITOR ed. (YEAR). TITLE. ...
    required style:
    one editor:
    EDITOR (ed.). (YEAR). TITLE. ... or
    EDITOR (Ed.). (YEAR). TITLE. …
    multiple editors:
    EDITOR (eds.). (YEAR). TITLE. ... or
    EDITOR (Eds.). (YEAR). TITLE. ...
    description:
    I checked this and they are consistent.
    (a) parenthesis and one period are missing, (b) unclear if it should be capitalized

    Search for "eds" or "(ed" or similar:

    Given, L. M. (ed.). (2008). The Sage encyclopedia of qualitative research methods. SAGE Publications.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1271245

    Aitzhanova, Aktoty, Katsu, Shigeo, Linn, Johannes F., and Yezhov, Vladislav(Eds.). (2014). Kazakhstan 2050: Toward a modern society for all. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
    and
    Jonassen, D. H., and Land, S. M. (Eds.). (2000). Theoretical foundations of learning environments. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
    both https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1284305

    Tytler, R., Prain, V., Hubber, P., and Waldrip, B. (Eds.). (2013b). Constructing representations to learn in science. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media
    and
    Mayer, R. E. (Ed.). (2005). The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1308117

    Hambleton, R. K., Merenda, P., and Spielberger, C. (Eds.). (2005). Adapting educational and psychological tests for cross-cultural assessment. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence S. Erlbaum Publishers.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1303617

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    4)
    entry type: article
    The style is correctly producing VOLUME:ARTICLENO and completely ignoring the issue.
    (Some article numbers are that short, that I mixed them up with issue numbers)

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    6)
    entry type: book chapter
    current style:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). TITLE. in BOOKTITLE <SPACE> , eds. EDITORS …
    required style:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). "TITLE," in BOOKTITLE, eds. EDITORS ...
    description:
    (a) missing quotation marks and comma for title, (b) space issue for book title as described in (9)

    Searched for a quotation mark and found:

    Wilkenfeld, J. N., Yan, B., Huang, J., Luo, G., and Algas, K. (2022). “‘AI love you': Linguistic convergence in human-chatbot relationship development,” in Academy of Management Proceedings (Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management) 17063. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.17063abstract
    and all other references here https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1166682

    All references here:
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1102085 (only book chapter)
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1267658 (very current)

    Just to be transparent: The comma is missing in these articles' references for book-chapters and conference-papers:
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1206936
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1097993
    https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1171513
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1111934
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1104633
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129299
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1175703 (current; only chapter)
    But I would assume this an error.
    Sometimes with comma and sometimes without:
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1096151

    Ok, in fact I found many examples where the comma is missing (for both, book-chapters and conference-papers), but their author guidelines tell to set a comma and some typeset articles do so.
    Nevertheless, conference-papers are typeset just as book-chapters.

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    9)
    entry type: book chapter
    current style:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). “TITLE,” in BOOKTITLE <SPACE>, eds. EDITORS OTHER_INFO
    required style:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). “TITLE,” in BOOKTITLE, eds. EDITORS OTHER_INFO
    description:
    space after BOOKTITLE should be removed

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    10)
    entry type: book chapter (with series title)
    current style:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). “TITLE,” in BOOKTITLE SERIESTITLE. , eds. EDITORS OTHER_INFO
    required style:
    AUTHOR (YEAR). “TITLE,” in BOOKTITLE, eds. EDITORS OTHER_INFO
    description:
    the SERIESTITLE should be removed

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