Hi Hello there i am using OJS 3.3.0.5 and the website is bilingual, i have a problem with the citations, I found out that it takes the first name of the authors’s arabic name, and secondly it writes the name of the journal with & and i want to change this to be “and” so from where i can change it?
Hi @mazen.abbas,
Please see this response here about the use of the ampersand in the title: Problem while exporting Citation to Reference Management Software - #6 by rcgillis. I wouldn’t recommend having an ampersand as part of your journal title, and using “and” instead. This may have some troubling implications for citation managers as well as possibly automated indexing/abstracting.
I’m not familiar with Arabic, so can you clarify what the first item that you have circled is, is that an abbreviation? What would it be translated to English?
-Roger
PKP Team
Yes i guess you are right regarding using ampersand and regarding the citation the man is named Mohamed as his first name and in Arabic it is written as محمد, so the citation took the last name from the English version and the first letter of the first name م
Hi @mazen.abbas,
Thanks for clarifying. From what I can tell it looks to be taking the first name (or possibly initial, which I believe is used in that citation style) from the arabic translation of your site and using it as part of the english one. I’ve seen this happen before and what it typically means is that the metadata (often the author last name and first name) is not entered in both languages - so not in both english and arabic in this case - can you confirm that this is the case? I can’t see the article online - is it published. I can see your site (Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies) - but there don’t appear to be any articles published, so I can’t verify - but it may be the case that you haven’t published yet.
-Roger
PKP Team
Yes this is the case and here is a link of one of the articles
Hi @mazen.abbas,
From looking at this, . I suspect a fix lies in Citation Style Language files (as well as the associated code for processing these styles) for a particular citation style (APA, in this case). However, I’m not sure how good the CSL files are for handling non-english character sets (I’ve seen other instances of this with Cyrillic). I will see if some of my colleagues can provide some assistance, but I’m not optimistic that there is an easy fix.
-Roger
PKP Team
Thanks for your prompt reply as always and I am waiting to hear from you whenever you find a solution, thanks again
Hi @mazen.abbas,
Thanks for sharing this. It looks like this is a bug in the way given names are localized vs the way family names are localized.
I filed an issue for it in PKP’s Github repository, where we manage and track our software development: PKPAuthor::getLocalizedGivenName() falls back to default locale when none provided · Issue #7546 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub. You can monitor the progress of the issue here and update your installation once the bug has been fixed.
Regards,
Erik
PKP Team
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Hi @ewhanson
Thanks for your reply, i looked at the link but it seems like it is not fixed yet, do you have any updates on it?
Hi @mazen.abbas,
Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly when it will be updated, but the issue has been filed against the next OJS 3.3 point release (3.3.0-9) and will be included with that release.
Regards,
Erik
PKP Team
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