Book chapter citations not displaying correctly

[aaronjnewman]

One of my ORCID citations is a chapter in an edited book. On my lab website, the citation appears for the book, not the chapter — ie the title shows as the book title, not the chapter title, and the "authors" show the editors of the book, not the chapter author (me). I suspect this is because there is a DOI for the book, but not individual DOIs for each chapter. However, if there is a way to override the default behavior in sources.yaml that would be great - I'm just not clear how from the documentation (book chapters don't seem to be covered in the docs). I realize I can just override the title and author, but that won't represent the fact that it's a chapter in a book. Ideally the chapter and book titles would render, along with both chapter author and editors.

For reference, my website is https://github.com/NeuroCognitiveImagingLab/NCIL-website-23
my ORCID is: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-5290-8342

The reference in question is from 2014 - book title is Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics

thanks in advance
Aaron

[vincerubinetti]

As you mentioned, since there is no DOI or other ID for the individual chapter, there is nothing for the template/Manubot to really cite.

I think what you'll want to do is just fill out the citation details for the chapter manually. This means just putting all the details in a sources.yaml entry yourself, but without an id:

- title: Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics | Chapter 12
  authors:
    - Me
  publisher: Some Publisher
  date: "2023-01-01"
  link: https://doi.org/some-link

You might even want to give "chapter" it's own type to make it stand out with an icon:

- title: blah
  type: chapter

Then in types.yaml:

chapter:
  icon: fa-solid fa-bookmark
  # or anything else from https://fontawesome.com/search?o=r&m=free

[aaronjnewman]

Great, thanks - I totally get that Manubot can't work with what it doesn't have, so a manual override is necessary. I appreciate the tips on doing this.

I might suggest that, since book chapters are a relatively common form of academic discourse, that the "chapter" type be integrated into the website template, and/or this fix added to the documentation on citations.

Cheers

[vincerubinetti]

I agree adding chapter to the list of built-in types is probably a good idea. Common enough to include in there. If there is another Font Awesome icon you found to be better than "bookmark", please suggest it.

As for the docs, manually inputting citation details is already covered and comes up in a search for "manual". Chapters specifically aren't mentioned, but neither are special behaviors for any other source/publication types. I try to keep the functionality and documentation pretty general. These discussions are useful for more specific needs and questions.

[aaronjnewman]

Thanks again. I might suggest the closed book icon ("book") for books and the book-open icon for chapters.

And to clarify on the manual entry - I'm aware of the documentation on this. What I wasn't clear enough about was it would be nice to have distinct manual entry fields for "book title" vs. "chapter title" and likewise for "book author(s)/editor(s)" vs. "chapter author(s)". The solution of simply entering the chapter title/author is fine though, given that these are listings on a website, with hyperlinks to more details.