Update CSL dependencies and test some reported bugs

[NateWr]

Describe the bug

A community member running OJS 3.1.2 has reported a few formatting bugs with the Citation Style Languages:

Issues no longer appearing:

• More than one first name written in full results in no space after the last name:: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5005 (default style in this journal is Chicago),
• When first names are shortened to initials there is also no space after the last name. In addition it messes up where the initials of the co-authors show up:
  • Several first name initials: https://doi.org/10.7557/3.4689 (default style in this journal is APA)
  • One first name initial: https://doi.org/10.7557/3.2612 (default style in this journal is APA).
• Turabian and Harvard add a 0 to Volume number:
• In https://doi.org/10.7557/3.4643 the Volume number is changed from 11 to 110 (see Turabian, we turned off Harvard for this journal)
• In https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4994 just 0 shows up in the Harvard style (the journal does not use Volume numbers).
• French title capitalization issue in APA (resolved after updates to 3.5/3.6 below).

Issues that still exist:

• Vancouver and Turabian do not use DOI in the link: JandaLaura A., Radovan Bast, and AspaasPer Pippin. “SMARTool”. Open Science Talk0, no. 33 (March 13, 2020). Accessed March 16, 2020. https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/OSTalk/article/view/5408.

This is an upstream CSL file issue, and to fix this it requires support for CSL 1.0.2 in citeproc-php and a migration to use the nlm-citation-sequence.csl file, as vancouver.csl is renamed in the CSL repository as of v1.0.2.

Additional issues to review (2026-05-07):

• Harvard not handling multiple authors correctly (forum post). (fixed with update to citeproc-php in 3.5/3.6 PRs below)

It's been a while since we updated the CSL styles and it looks like there's been a new release of citeproc-php. We should update what we're using then test against the cases described above.

To Reproduce
You will need to build out test data resembling each case above.

What application are you using?
OJS 3.1.2

Pull Requests

• citationStyleLanguage 3.5: pkp/pkp-lib#5629 update citeproc version, csl files, links, and improve attribution citationStyleLanguage#164
• citationStyleLanguage main: pkp/pkp-lib#5629 update citeproc version, csl files, links, and improve attribution citationStyleLanguage#165

Submodule updates

• OJS 3.5: pkp/pkp-lib#5629 submodule update ojs#5535
• OMP 3.5: pkp/pkp-lib#5629 submodule update omp#2331
• OPS 3.5: pkp/pkp-lib#5629 submodule update ops#1282

[NateWr]

Some of the space issues seem to be related to PHP 7.3/7.4. See pkp/citeproc-php#80. A new release should be available soon.

[NateWr]

@asmecher several of these spacing issues were fixed with an update to citeproc-php. I've pushed that change to master. What's the best way to make sure this goes out with OJS 3.2.0-2? Do I make a submodule commit in OJS pointing to the master branch of citationStyleLanguage?

[asmecher]

@NateWr, yes, the submodule update of plugins/generic/citationStyleLanguage needs to be updated. I have not (yet) created a stable-3_2_0 branch within that plugin, because there's been no divergence yet -- but when there is, that branch should be created. The submodule update needs to be committed to the ojs repo in both master and stable-3_2_0 branches.

[AhemNason]

Can I add one to this? I've noticed that if you're running a bilingual journal, the citation generated appears to run some capitalization rules independent of whatever French-language metadata is entered. I have a journal with the French title:

Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée

But, I'm generating this reference in French:

Wouters, I., & Fortier, V. (2020). Tu vas à la cerise les dimanches ? L’importance de travailler la perception et la production de phonèmes en allemand langue étrangère. Revue Canadienne De Linguistique appliquée, 23(1), 23-51. https://doi.org/10.37213/cjal.2020.28661

I checked to see if it was style-specific but it doesn't seem to be. This is a little weird mostly because I can't figure out why it didn't also capitalize "appliquée". Maybe I'm wrong to assume it pulls this metadata from the journal-title field?

[NateWr]

What citation style are you using?

[AhemNason]

this is APA