Error inserting citations using Elsevier styles

[spaulaus]

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Expected behavior/Steps to reproduce:

1. Enabled Elsevier (numeric, with titles) reference type. Confirmed with other variants of the Elsevier numeric styles.
2. Add reference from DOI:
   • Breaks when cited: 10.1063/1.3586170
   • Works when cited: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.02.024
3. Type text, select reference, and click "Insert Citation"
4. Citation is inserted.
5. Bibliography block is added / updated

   Actual behavior: The citation is inserted, but the bibliography block is destroyed. .

   Console messages: https://gist.github.com/spaulaus/362776a566cf14a31b6e54302c54e966

[dsifford]

I wish more people would report issues like you.

Thanks for the clarity. I'll try to look into this soon.

[spaulaus]

No problem! We're all in this together. Let me know if you need additional information.

[dsifford]

@spaulaus Goooooooooooooood find. Just got this sorted out locally. This was a pretty wild edge case. Glad to get it smoothed out.

I'll be pushing an update soon that includes the fix for this and a fix for a recent bug in wordpress core preventing the proper storage of citation metadata in postmeta.

Thanks again.

[spaulaus]

@dsifford : Awesome! Thanks for the quick turn around. Confirmed as working from my side. Out of curiosity, what was it about that DOI that caused the problem?

[dsifford]

The data returned from crosscite is in a format that is not aligned with the CSL JSON specification (even though they claim to be). So when processing that particular style, when it hit a field that had the incorrect type, a cascading error occurred.

[spaulaus]

Ah! The old documentation switcheroo. Thanks again for your help with this!