Hi,
Thanks for the package DOIs. I have a question about citation formats
from these DOIs.
When using the bioconductor DOIs to programatically pull a citation from
DOI providers in bibtex format, the author field seems to be formatted
incorrectly. I don't really know how the information is given to the
provider, or how that is formatted and parsed, but there seems to be a
hiccup somewhere. For example, if you take the AnnotationHub DOI:
10.18129/B9.bioc.AnnotationHub
https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.AnnotationHub
And paste this into the DOI citation formatter at crosscite
(https://citation.crosscite.org/), with bibtex formatting style, the
result is:
@Article{Martin Morgan [Cre], Marc Carlson [Ctb], Dan Tenenbaum [Ctb],
Sonali Arora [Ctb]_2017, title={AnnotationHub},
DOI={10.18129/b9.bioc.annotationhub}, publisher={Bioconductor},
author={Martin Morgan [Cre], Marc Carlson [Ctb], Dan Tenenbaum [Ctb],
Sonali Arora [Ctb]}, year={2017}}
When using the jabref DOI puller, I get the same bibtex:
@misc{[Cre]2017,
author = {Martin Morgan [Cre], Marc Carlson [Ctb], Dan Tenenbaum
[Ctb], Sonali Arora [Ctb]},
title = {AnnotationHub},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.18129/b9.bioc.annotationhub},
pages = {-},
publisher = {Bioconductor},
timestamp = {2018-01-05},
}
Jabref doesn't correctly parse this bibtex because the author field is
not formatted correctly in bibtex format. See this page for an
explanation: http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-manyauthor.html
This also leads to the really strange default bibtex keys. This
indicates that however the metadata is getting sent to the provider may
be incorrect, because it's just treating that author field as a single
string so it's not getting parsed correctly into alternative citation
formats. It strikes me that the [Cre]/[Ctb] flags would probably need to
be passed in a separate field, and the authors seem to be not passed in
correctly as individuals but rather as a concatenated string, somehow.
This could either be a problem with the way bioconductor is passing
metadata along, or perhaps it's a problem with crosscite or something?
I'm not sure. Any thoughts?
Nathan Sheffield, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Public Health Genomics
University of Virginia
www.databio.org