Conference procedings with many volumes should be set up as issues or journals?

Publishing Practices
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Hello,

I would like to ask about the best practice for publishing conference proceedings with many volumes, i.e., when the conference is held biannually.

I created one journal intending to use ISSUE for particular volumes, see here: https://elex.link/ojs/index.php/elex/

However, I am now thinking if this access is the most appropriate?

If yes, I am interested in the possibility of how to add the ISSUE information to the citation format. The citation looks as follows:

Evaluation of the Cross-lingual Embedding Models from the Lexicographic Perspective. (2023). Electronic Lexicography in the 21st Century, 1-18. https://elex.link/ojs/index.php/elex/article/view/1

But I want to modify it to this:

Evaluation of the Cross-lingual Embedding Models from the Lexicographic Perspective. Electronic Lexicography in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the eLex 2023 conference. 1-18. https://elex.link/ojs/index.php/elex/article/view/1

to add the ISSUE name ā€œProceedings of the eLex 2023 conferenceā€ to the citation.

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Hi @michalc,

From what Iā€™ve seen, those who use OJS for conference proceedings, name it ā€œProceedings of X conferenceā€¦ā€ or something similar. This seems to be the most common practice. There are some examples here: https://library.ualberta.ca/publishing/open-journals

Naming it in that manner should put it in place of the journal title. It might be worth testing out.

-Roger
PKP Team

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Hi @michalc,

there is also ā€œConferenceā€ plugin in the Gallery that does some renaming of the UI and also adds a event date to the conference volumes (formerly issues).

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What the plugin, however, does not, is to send conference materials in the correct type to Crossref. Iā€™m currently working on an extension for this.

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Hi all,

Thank you for your information. It seems our current naming based on the conference name follow the most common practice.

The mentioned Conference plugin could be a good extension of our OJS website. I will explore it more. Thank you for this reference.

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