Is it possible to render name-part affixes in Japanese author names?

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@mayfair

I also know problems regarding inconsistency in Katakana notation. For example, there are variations for the same person, Martin Heidegger, a well-known German philosopher.

Yes, now I see the point of not transliterating authors names in katakana.

I tested the updated citeproc-js in the following steps. …

Thanks for testing.

Actualy, if you test using one of my Japanese csl, you will need to add “name-kana” in your bibliography.json. It will signal that the entry should be rendered in Japanese. It will also sort the bibliography using that field.

I named it “name-kana” because I expected Japanese but the values do not have to be kana. I am still looking for a better field name.

This is how the bibliography should look like.

bibliography.json

    [
      {
        "id": "morgan2023jiyu",
        "author": [
          { "family": "Morgan", "given": "Casey" },
          { "family": "Patrov", "given": "Alexei" }
        ],
        "citation-key": "morgan2023jiyu",
        "event-place": "東京",
        "issued": { "date-parts": [[2023]] },
        "language": "ja",
        "original-date": { "date-parts": [[2022]] },
        "original-publisher": "Global Academic Press",
        "original-publisher-place": "Chicago, IL",
        "original-title": "The Philosophy of Free Will",
        "publisher": "城南大学出版会",
        "publisher-place": "東京",
        "title": "自由意志の哲学",
        "translator": [{ "family": "鈴木", "given": "真紀" }],
        "type": "book",
        "note":"name-kana:Morgan Casey"
      }
    ]

Could you try one (or some) of your styles with some of your bibliography entries? It will be helpfull if we could think of every possible name display in a Japanese document.

  • Katakana (with punctuations or not), Original name in English (or other language), Japanese, (single, double, multiple authors)

I will also find some time to test this and report here if I find any issues. I hope to file an issue on GitHub and submit a pull request soon.

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