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Author surnames starting with a lower case letter disappear in citation key #8601

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RonMcKay opened this issue Mar 23, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #8634
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Author surnames starting with a lower case letter disappear in citation key #8601

RonMcKay opened this issue Mar 23, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #8634
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JabRef version

5.5 (latest release)

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Windows

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JabRef 5.5--2022-01-17--27a05c7 Windows 10 10.0 amd64 Java 16.0.2 JavaFX 17.0.1+1

Checked with the latest development build

  • I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
  • I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

  1. Set the default pattern of the Citation key pattern to [auth][year]
  2. Add an article with a first author who's surname starts with a lower case letter (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10697) or edit an existing article so that the first letter of the first author's surname is lower case.
  3. Hit 'Generate citation key' -> 'Overwrite keys'

The resulting Citation key is missing the [auth] field and is just displaying the year.

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mlep commented Mar 23, 2022

Confirmed in JabRef 5.6--2022-03-21--b47c29f
Linux 4.19.0-19-amd64 amd64
Java 17.0.2
JavaFX 18+12

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I dug a bit into it. JabRef parses the first author Stéphane d'Ascoli into firstname + vonPart . So far so correct.
The [auth] patterns only returns the last name, it does not consider the von-Part. That is only considered when using
[authFirstFull].
In contrast, an author like Michiel van den Brekel is generated correctly. Breken is identified as lastname.
However, with [authFirstFull] you would get vandenBrekel2021

A possible solution would be to return the vonPart (if any) in case the lastname is empty.

@Siedlerchr Siedlerchr added the bug Confirmed bugs or reports that are very likely to be bugs label Apr 1, 2022
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Citation keygen: Return vonPart if lastName is empty
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Fixes #8601
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Citation keygen: Return vonPart if lastName is empty (#8634)
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* Citation keygen: Return vonPart if lastName is empty

Fixes #8601

* changelog and checkstyle
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