GitHub output for CITATION.cff with 'preferred-citation'
fgnievinski opened this issue · 8 comments
When CITATION.cff has a 'preferred-citation', the DOI is absent in the output produced by GitHub.
Example: https://github.com/fgnievinski/mphw/blob/main/CITATION.cff
A. R. Fagundes, M., Mendonça-Tinti, I., L. Iescheck, A., M. Akos, D., & Geremia-Nievinski, F. An open-source low-cost sensor for SNR-based GNSS reflectometry: design and long-term validation towards sea-level altimetry. GPS Solutions, 25(), 73
The publisher's "cite this article" text reads:
Fagundes, M.A.R., Mendonça-Tinti, I., Iescheck, A.L. et al. An open-source low-cost sensor for SNR-based GNSS reflectometry: design and long-term validation towards sea-level altimetry. GPS Solut 25, 73 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-021-01087-1
Besides the major issue above (DOI missing), a related minor issue is the presentation of journal issue numbers: when it's absent, it should not produce empty parentheses "()" next to the volume number.
Related issues:
- if I set "preferred citation", the BibTeX generated by GitHub does not seem to include most of the data entered
Hi Felipe, thanks for making this issue. The library underneath the GitHub citation feature is ruby-cff, I will move this issue to the corresponding repository. I suspect ruby-cff reads exclusively from doi, not from identifiers. At least it worked when I changed that in my fork.
indeed, I wasn't aware it's possible to use doi without identifiers; now my example is fixed.
except for the journal issue number, please let me know if it should be split in a new ticket.
except for the journal issue number, please let me know if it should be split in a new ticket.
Good with me either way, whatever @hainesr thinks is most convenient
Let's just leave this issue open and I'll have a look at this as soon as possible.
Right, I'm looking at this now. One thing I've also noticed in the comparison of the two outputs above is the apparent mangling of the authors' initials:
A. R. Fagundes, M.
Where you'd expect:
Fagundes, M.A.R.
It turns out that in the CFF file the middle initials have been specified in the name-particle field, which is for things like 'von' or 'van der' rather than initials. @fgnievinski, was this how the CFF was generated by cffinit? If so I think that's a bug in cffinit.
👍 will do. I'll look at getting this deployed early next week.
@fgnievinski, was this how the CFF was generated by
cffinit? If so I think that's a bug incffinit.
I've split this in a separate issue:
citation-file-format/citation-file-format#373