Heya, I’m using Mendeley for citations in web app. In the desktop Mendely suite, you can update referenced article’s metadata by syncing with PubMed database. This feature works really well and fixes a lot of problems in spelling etc. But for many papers it also includes a full stop at the end of the paper name. When these papers get synced to typst, they break the referencing as the reference name cannot end with a dot. Currently I manually delete the dot in Mendeley for each paper, but obviously would appreciate an automated solution. I wonder if typst could be made to handle paper names ending with a dot? Or if there is another solution I’m not aware of?
It is not possible use the @name syntax if the label ends with a dot. Instead, you can use #cite(<name>) (and #ref(<name>).
If you need to include special characters not supported by the <> label syntax, you can use #cite(label("name")) (and #ref(label("name"))).
To automate the dot removal, you could in theory read the bibliography file, remove the dots with regex replacement and then pass the resulting string to bibliography through bytes(..). Since you already have Typst Pro, that would be a good opportunity for a private package. 
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Man I wish I had the skills to do that…
You can acquire skill by practicing and learning new things about the matter. Both things you can control. The forum can help with learning.
Would you post a portion of the file you are using for your citations? That way we can perhaps show you how to do it?
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