Cannot transfer dataset metadata to ESS-DIVE with multiple lines in the Dataset References field about ngt-archive HOT 2 CLOSED

@emilyarobles @gilbertozp I am looking at the ESS-DIVE API technical documentation and it looks like the citation field only allows strings and not lists of strings. We probably need to ask if they will allow and array of strings for multiple lines. In the meantime, I will see if the following works: intead of spliting the string into a list to leave it as a string with new lines.

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@emilyarobles @gilbertozp I tried submitting a single string with \n for line breaks. While ESS-DIVE api accepted the submission it renders the newline control charaters and not the newline. I manually edit the dataset to have two reference lines (two different text boxes) and accessed the dataset via the api and it returns the following for the citation

"citation": [
            "Goulden, M. L., and Coauthors, Diel and seasonal patterns of tropical forest CO2 exchange, Ecol. Appl., 14, S42-S54, 2004. Solander et al.: The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2303–2322, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2303-2020, 2020",
            "Additional information about citations: Some additional information about my references"
        ],

Thus, this is an ESS-DIVE bug that we need to email them about.

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