Author with no affiliation

[rcurtin]

Hi there,

This comes from the mlpack 3 review:

https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/726

Or specifically the PDF proof in question:

https://github.com/openjournals/joss-papers/blob/joss.00726/joss.00726/10.21105.joss.00726.pdf

Authors 4 and 5 (Yannis and Sumedh) should have no affiliation, so I left no affiliation specified in the paper.md (https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/blob/master/doc/joss_paper/paper.md). But the paper is compiled and (I guess) assumes that their affiliation is the first affiliation. Is there any way to specify no affiliation?

Thanks!

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@arfon can you help here. Can we support no or "empty" affiliations?

[arfon]

The best we have is a workaround which is to create an affiliation called 'None' and assign that to the authors without affiliations.

[rcurtin]

Should I hold out for actual support, or use that workaround in the finished paper? To me it seems strange to explicitly point out a "None" affiliation.

[arfon]

I would move ahead and use the workaround.

[logological]

Should I hold out for actual support, or use that workaround in the finished paper? To me it seems strange to explicitly point out a "None" affiliation.

Isn't the usual convention here to list one's affiliation as "Independent scholar" or "Independent researcher"?

[arfon]

I'm not sure, I feel pretty sure I've seen 'No affiliation' and 'None' before. What term the authors use is up to them.