Imported name suffix in `family` part

[zepinglee]

Debug log ID

6MKZLSYL-refs-apse/6.7.143-6

What happened?

When imported from .bib, the name suffix "Jr." is placed in the family name part and it's not correctly recognized as suffix in the exported CSL-JSON. According to https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/23745, the "Jr." is expected in the given part. The exported CSL-JSON works correctly in the latter format. See also https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/37289 and https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3271.

BibTeX data:

@BOOK{apa-test.9.46:8,
  AUTHOR = {Costa, Jr., P. T. and McCrae, R. R.},
  DATE   = {2013}
}

Exported CSL-JSON:

            {
                "family": "Costa, Jr.",
                "given": "P. T."
            }

Exported CSL-JSON with "Jr." in given name part:

            {
                "family": "Costa",
                "given": "P. T.",
                "suffix": "Jr."
            }

[retorquere]

Is Jr. a special case then? Because Costa, J. would mean { given: 'J.', family: 'Costa' }.

[retorquere]

@njbart? Do you know if there are more of these special cases?

[retorquere]

Does that mean {MacCallum, III, T.} should parse into { given: 'T.', family: 'MacCallum, III' }?

[zepinglee]

Does that mean {MacCallum, III, T.} should parse into { given: 'T.', family: 'MacCallum, III' }?

No. My understanding is that “III” is also a name suffix as "Jr". In the apa.csl output, { given: 'T.', family: 'MacCallum, III' } becomes MacCallum, III, T. and { given: 'T., III', family: 'MacCallum' } with "III" in the given part gives MacCallum, T., III. as expected in the APA manual.

CSL-JSON:

[
    {
        "id": "apa.9.44:6b",
        "type": "document",
        "language": "en-US",
        "note": "tex.entrytype: nameonly",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "MacCallum",
                "given": "T.",
                "suffix": "III"
            }
        ]
    }
]

[zepinglee]

Is Jr. a special case then? Because Costa, J. would mean { given: 'J.', family: 'Costa' }.

The btxdoc.pdf says:

To summarize, BibTeX allows three possible forms for the name: "First von Last" "von Last, First" "von Last, Jr, First"

The Jr part is not likely to be confused with First part because it's delimited by the second comma.

If there are more commas, BibTeX will raise an error.

Too many commas in name 1 of "Costa, Jr., P. T., Doe" for entry apa-test.9.46:8

[retorquere]

All right, that's what my parser does, I just stuck the result in the wrong place.

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[retorquere]

5614 fixes it. Would appreciate it if you could check it does what you want.

[zepinglee]

It works correctly now.

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