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I wouldn’t pay any attention to that example. Journal articles in PLOS journals don’t generally, if ever, include publishers. There is no reason for the inconsistency in the examples here. Note that |
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@bwiernik -- I don't understand (or maybe you're misreading the issue -- the example with publisher is not from PLOS but from our style for PLOS). I'd add a much more general publisher conditional that removes it entirely from journal, magazine, and newspaper articles (at a minimum) |
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Yes, that’s right. Sorry—I misread the issue as quoting example citations. |
dhimmel commentedJun 11, 2019
PLOS Computational Biology (and PLOS) show an example journal article reference of:
Note that publisher information is not included (at least when
container-title
is known). However, we find here that the publisher is included (in this case "Oxford University Press"):The CSL for this item is:
Is it possible for the following to be conditional, in a way that would omit showing publisher when type is
article-journal
andcontainer-title
is available:styles/plos.csl
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