[OJS 3.5] Citation Style Language Plugin: bibtex export malformed

Software Support
1

Hi,

after upgrading from 3.3 to 3.5, the BibTeX export was missing the author={} field, and title={} was missing too — the full article title ended
up inside the cite key instead:

article{Full Article Title Here_2025,
volume={1},
…
}

Cause: in the plugin settings under “Contributors”, the “Authors → Author” checkbox was unchecked.

Checking “Authors → Author” in the settings fixed it immediately.

To prevent something like that from happening, maybe “Author” should be checked by default and made mandatory.

2

Hi @ohilbig01

Yes, we have a GitHub Issue for that, please see and folow Plugin settings should have a default selection for author/translator roles · Issue #128 · pkp/citationStyleLanguage · GitHub.

Thanks,
Bozana

3

Oh, thanks for the reply. I had overlooked that. There are actually errors in the .bib file when no author is selected. It’s not just that author and title are missing, there is also a syntax error.