Journal section "Editorials: Empty author name in metadata?

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We have a journal section for editorials, signed by “The Editors”.
Currently I’m forced to enter non-empty author names (first: The, last: Editors).
I can configure the journal section to not print this information on the screen.
Yet the HTML still contains embedded metadata with “The Editors”.
I just wanted to confirm there’s no way to leave the author name empty.
Thanks,
-FGN.

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Hi @fgnievinski,

What version of OJS are you using? (Please include this in your posts.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Sorry, it’s version 2 (2.4.8.0).
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Hi @fgnievinski,

Sorry, there’s no “official” way to leave author names empty in OJS 2.x. For OJS 3.x, we’ve just merged a contribution allowing for single author names (as opposed to forcing a first and last in cases where that shouldn’t apply), but at least one author name is still required. To fully remove the dependency on at least a single author name we’d need to review downstream requirements to see how/whether we can still meet their requirements (e.g. CrossRef, Google Scholar, Citation Style Language, etc).

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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