Translator not printing in the bibliography

styrmirm
Hello

The translator of a book is not printed any more in the new version (2.1+). It worked in last version and is not working any more. I am using APA style.

Should be like this:
Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Book title: Subtitle (Translator
First Initial. Second Initial. Surname, Trans.). Place of Publication: Publisher.
(Original work published Year).

p.s. Original work published year is not a option in Zotero so that have never worked.
  • styrmirm
    I found out what might be the reason for this behaviour.
    I had two authors with one web article and only the first author was printed. The reason for that seamed to be that I was having the user name in one field "Jon Jonsson" (that is how APA is for icelandic names in Iceland) so when i switched to two fields both where printed. However doing the same thing with the translator didn't fix the issue in that case.

    Hope this helps in fixing this.
  • styrmirm
    Is placing a thread here in the troubleshooting forums the same as making bug report?
  • adamsmith
    this is fine yes - I'll have a look.
  • adamsmith
    edited March 29, 2011
    OK, I've tracked down the translator bug, a corrected version of the style is here
    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/master/apa.csl

    The problem was that the old style had
    <names variable="editor translator" delimiter=", " suffix=", ">

    in the two relevant macros. I'm not even sure what that was supposed to do, but in any case it caused the new processor to ignore it entirely.

    I'm not sure how a translated book with an editor or an edited chapter with a translator are supposed to look in APA, so right now they don't exist (i.e. the former just has the editor(s), the latter just the translators. If someone can find that out I'm happy to adjust the code accordingly.

    I also corrected the term from "Tran." to "Trans."

    Let me know if you find any other issues.
  • styrmirm
    Translator is still not printing in the 2.1.2 branch. I downloaded it and had a try.

    Having two authors with single field now works in citation, couldn't test it in biography. OpenOffice complained about firefox not being open.
  • adamsmith
    this issue is now known, but not going to be fixed in 2.1.2 - but the style linked to above should work correctly for you.
  • styrmirm
    Thanks, I am amazed by your quick answers. I didn't notice the answer earlier but yes it works with that one.
    If I find out how you do this with a translated chapter or a book with a editor I will post that here.
  • styrmirm
    I did some changes in the icelandic locales-is-IS.xml file and it is available at https://gist.github.com/895309.

    I could possible look at the translation for Zotero also, if the files are available somewhere.

    Best regards
    Styrmir
  • styrmirm
    Adamsmith, there is an error in the apa.csl with the <locales> you added to there.

    You have switched
    <locale xml:lang="en">
    <terms>

    should be
    <terms>
    <locale xml:lang="en">
    ...
    </locale>
    </terms>
  • adamsmith
    I believe that has changed:
    http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#id25
  • RintzeRintze
    Committed: https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/commit/2b7aa271895714d564e707702c146339b3bfcd5a
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