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Editor should not be printed in Article type #230

Open junoslukan opened 5 months ago

junoslukan commented 5 months ago

In Article type, the editor is printed as follows:

Author, A., & Bauthor, B. (2024). Article title (E. Editor, Ed.). Journal name, Vol(Iss).

I do not think this should be the case according to APA examples. Editors are only mentioned in retracted articles.

plk commented 5 months ago

Why does an article have an editor field at all?

junoslukan commented 5 months ago

I am not completely sure, but I stumbled upon this with PLOS ONE that has hundreds of editors, so this information might be relevant. Similarly, it might be used for articles published in special issues that can have other editors than the journal's regular issues.

BibLaTeX's manual only has this to say (under article on p. 9):

Note that editor and related fields refer to the journal while translator and related fields refer to the article.

plk commented 5 months ago

I don't think this is much of an issue as no-one has mentioned this before in many year of APA style usage. It is always possible to strip out editors from all articles dynamically using a sourcemap without chaning the .bib data if necessary.