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Is there a reason it doesn't show author names when I submit a URL like http://www.sciencemag.org/content/210/4472/903.short ?

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Sciencemag.org uses a special metatag for authors (citation_author). I'm not sure how common this is, but I will add logic to check these. Then SpeedCite would properly cite the author.

Yeah I see the same happening with bbc. Example: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27204988

The BBC doesn't have an author metatag for some reason. I can search for a 'byline' span as a fallback. Thanks for noticing this.

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