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PLOS style references include "[Internet]" for preprints and books #4138

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dhimmel opened this issue Jun 11, 2019 · 7 comments

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commented Jun 11, 2019

PLOS Computational Biology specifies including [Internet] after the title for specific types of references:

  • New media (blogs, web sites, or other written works)
  • Databases and repositories (Figshare, arXiv)

For other types, examples do not include [Internet], such as:

  • Accepted, unpublished articles
  • Online articles
  • Books
  • Book chapters
  • Deposited articles (preprints, e-prints, or arXiv)
  • Published media (print or online newspapers and magazine articles)
  • Masters' theses or doctoral dissertations
  • Multimedia (videos, movies, or TV shows)

Note that arXiv is listed under both "Databases and repositories" and "Deposited articles", although I think the later is a more accurate categorization for preprints.

Currently the CSL Style for PLOS Computational Biology, which inherits from PLOS, places [Internet] after many reference types that fall under the later categories above. It seems that the presence of a URL in the CSL JSON is sometimes used to determine whether [Internet] should be added:

styles/plos.csl

Lines 163 to 170 in 76e2ff8

<if type="article-journal article-magazine chapter paper-conference article-newspaper post-weblog webpage" match="none">
<choose>
<if variable="URL">
<text term="internet" prefix=" [" suffix="]" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
</if>
</choose>
<text macro="edition" prefix=". "/>
</if>

Note that most citeable works these days have a URL, but that doesn't mean they fall into the internet categories above.

We noticed this issue when creating this reference list. Notice the following examples of how CSL JSON was converted to a reference.

csl json: type is entry, but switching to book does not remove [Internet]:

  1. Nielsen M. Reinventing Discovery [Internet]. Princeton University Press; 2011. doi:10.1515/9781400839452

csl json. Type is manuscript for a bioRxiv preprint:

  1. Ching T, Himmelstein DS, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Kalinin AA, Do BT, Way GP, et al. Opportunities And Obstacles For Deep Learning In Biology And Medicine [Internet]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 2017. doi:10.1101/142760

csl json for an arXiv preprint where type is report:

  1. Phillip Lord, Lindsay Marshall. Twenty-Five Shades of Greycite: Semantics for referencing and preservation [Internet]. arXiv. arXiv; 2013 Apr. Report No.: 1304.7151v1. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7151v1

csl json for report type:

  1. National Information Standards Organization. ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, version 1.2 [Internet]. NISO; 2019 Feb. Available: https://www.niso.org/publications/z3996-2019-jats
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commented Jul 11, 2019

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Activity.

It might make sense to address this issue at the same time as #4140, which also concerns the PLOS CSL. Noting that there are other minor issues with the PLOS CSL as commented on at greenelab/meta-review#241 (comment).

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commented Sep 25, 2019

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POBrien333 added a commit to POBrien333/styles that referenced this issue Sep 27, 2019
Fix issues regarding [internet] and [preprint] for PLoS as per: citation-style-language#4138 (and pointed out again here: citation-style-language#4140 (comment))

Please check carefully if I did this correctly. :)
adam3smith added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 2, 2019
* Update plos.csl

Fix issues regarding [internet] and [preprint] for PLoS as per: #4138 (and pointed out again here: #4140 (comment))

Please check carefully if I did this correctly. :)

* Update plos.csl

* Update plos.csl
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commented Oct 15, 2019

I think we're finally done here

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