CrossRef bibtex export & improving it

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Just a heads up, this change appears to have been implemented and broken my workflow, since bibtex-js (github.com:digitalheir/bibtex-js) does not know about the month abbreviations, and thus fails to parse CrossRef BibTeX entries. Arguably that’s a bug with bibtex-js, but I did want to note it here in case anyone else runs into this issue.

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Quick workaround if you need it: add the following to your .bib file.

MACRO {jan} {"January"}
MACRO {feb} {"February"}
MACRO {mar} {"March"}
MACRO {apr} {"April"}
MACRO {may} {"May"}
MACRO {jun} {"June"}
MACRO {jul} {"July"}
MACRO {aug} {"August"}
MACRO {sep} {"September"}
MACRO {oct} {"October"}
MACRO {nov} {"November"}
MACRO {dec} {"December"}
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@jowens Thanks for the tip – for bibtex-js I ended up needing to use strings instead:

@STRING{jan = "January"}
@STRING{feb = "February"}
@STRING{mar = "March"}
@STRING{apr = "April"}
@STRING{may = "May"}
@STRING{jun = "June"}
@STRING{jul = "July"}
@STRING{aug = "August"}
@STRING{sep = "September"}
@STRING{oct = "October"}
@STRING{nov = "November"}
@STRING{dec = "December"}
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Just expressing my eagerness to see this addressed. Happy new year!

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Still excited to see this fixed. Good luck!

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It’d be amazing to see this fixed. Thanks!

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So we did finally get around go finishing this off. Apologies that it took so long, details at [CR-1064] - Jira

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