Journal-specific warnings of unexpected fields

[michaelmhoffman]

Online-only journals sometimes have different article identification practices than traditional journals with a volume, issue, start and end page. Unfortunately bibliographic data in databases such as Google Scholar and sometimes even the publishers' own web sites do not account for this correctly. This leads to common errors in these data such as:

• issue number of "1" for a continuously published journal with no issues
• page ranges that indicate the pagination within the single article (for example "1--20") rather than the article number.

Catching these automatically would be useful. I would envision a user being able to set up a configuration file with particular journal quirks. For example, maybe warning whenever there is an issue number specified for something in Journal X. Or a page range that starts with 1 (sometimes, but rarely correct).