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Problem

Two related defects in bluebook-law-review.csl cause 3+ author short cites
and 3+ editor full cites to render with separators that don't match Bluebook
author-list convention.

For a three-author short cite of a book, the current output is:

SMITH, JONES, AND BROWN, supra note 7

Bluebook author-list convention is "A, B & C" — no Oxford comma before the
ampersand, and "&" rather than "and". Expected:

SMITH, JONES & BROWN, supra note 7

The same Oxford-comma defect affects 3+ editor lists in full cites via the
editor-translator macro.

Cause

  • name-short-macro (line 70) uses and="text" and omits
    delimiter-precedes-last="never", so it falls back to CSL's contextual
    default — inserting a comma before the connector when there are 3+ names.
  • editor-translator (line 94) also omits delimiter-precedes-last="never",
    with the same effect on 3+ editor lists.

Why this is uncontroversial

The global name-macro in this file (line 41) already specifies
and="symbol" delimiter-precedes-last="never", so full author cites
render correctly. The sibling style bluebook-inline.csl already
uses and="symbol" in its short-cite <name> elements (lines 40, 47).
This PR brings the two stragglers in bluebook-law-review.csl into
alignment with the file's own global convention.

Note: bluebook-inline.csl is missing delimiter-precedes-last="never"
on the same short-cite <name> elements and produces the same
Oxford-comma defect for 3+ author short cites; a follow-up PR will
address that.

Scope

  • Only affects rendering of name lists with 3 or more names. 1- and 2-name
    cites are unchanged.
  • No schema impact; both attributes are standard CSL.
  • No new variables consumed; no item-type behavior changes.

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😃 Your submission passed all our automated tests.

Below are some sample citations generated based on your proposed changes:

bluebook-law-review.csl (modified style)
CSL Search by Example, Citation style editor (2012), https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/; Martin Fenner et al., A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories, 6 Sci. Data (2019), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0031-8.
Tania Galindo-Castañeda et al., Locating the Microbes along the Maize Root System under Nitrogen Limitation: a Root Phenotypic Approach, 136 Ann. Bot. 1143 (2025), https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/136/5-6/1143/8231684; Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy (Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes & Mark Thatcher eds., 2007), https://academic.oup.com/book/5397.
Isabela Mares, Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?, in Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage 184 (Peter A. Hall & David Soskice eds., 2001), https://academic.oup.com/book/301/chapter/134896619.
 <i>CSL Search by Example</i>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Citation style editor</span> (2012), https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/; Martin Fenner et al., <i>A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories</i>, 6 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Sci. Data</span> (2019), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0031-8.<br/>
-Tania Galindo-Castañeda et al., <i>Locating the Microbes along the Maize Root System under Nitrogen Limitation: a Root Phenotypic Approach</i>, 136 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ann. Bot.</span> 1143 (2025), https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/136/5-6/1143/8231684; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy</span> (Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes, &amp; Mark Thatcher eds., 2007), https://academic.oup.com/book/5397.<br/>
+Tania Galindo-Castañeda et al., <i>Locating the Microbes along the Maize Root System under Nitrogen Limitation: a Root Phenotypic Approach</i>, 136 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ann. Bot.</span> 1143 (2025), https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/136/5-6/1143/8231684; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy</span> (Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes &amp; Mark Thatcher eds., 2007), https://academic.oup.com/book/5397.<br/>
 Isabela Mares, <i>Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?</i>, <i>in</i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage</span> 184 (Peter A. Hall &amp; David Soskice eds., 2001), https://academic.oup.com/book/301/chapter/134896619.<br/>

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