Describe the issue or problem
My question is: what format should be supplied by the submitter for the bibiographic references? We happen to use the quickSubmit plugin but I assume the problem is the same even if the author uses the normal submission flow. There is a textarea but no guidance on what should go into it other than “one reference per line”.
Steps I took leading up to the issue
In the quickSubmit plugin it shows a simple textarea into which the submitter should enter the bibliographic references. Our workflow receives the bibliographic references in a structured format (bibtex) from the author, and from this we are able to produce JATS XML or HTML or JSON. We would like for the crossref data to contain the bibliographic references, though I assume that is only possible with an unstructured format <unstructured_citation>. If we supply HTML then we get hyperlinks in the displayed references, which is good. It’s unclear if the crossref preparation of XML could handle that. Parsing free text bibliographic references is notoriously unreliable, but perhaps the only thing that matters to crossref is the DOI (if there is one).
What application are you using?
OJS 3.4.0-10 with the quickSubmit plugin from the gallery (currently 1.0.7.2, dated 2023-04-12).
Additional information
The data we enter into the field is apparently stored in the database in the publication_settings table under the name citationsRaw but it’s not clear what that should be.
While our pipeline generates the metadata segments of JATS XML, it is infeasible to produce an accurate representation of the article in JATS by automatic conversion (everyone who tries will find this out). We will probably never supply JATS galleys for this reason, but the structured parts are easy for us to produce.