From 221328f6b24da5f03c8db149fa28980b801067e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Myers <myersjd@umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:49:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] handle null description

---
 src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/DataCitation.java | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/DataCitation.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/DataCitation.java
index eb82d4273b5..b7bc1036686 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/DataCitation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/DataCitation.java
@@ -311,10 +311,13 @@ public void writeAsRISCitation(OutputStream os) throws IOException {
         if (seriesTitle != null) {
             out.write("T3  - " + seriesTitle + "\r\n");
         }
-        out.write("AB  - " + flattenHtml(description) + "\r\n");
+        if(description!=null) {
+            out.write("AB  - " + flattenHtml(description) + "\r\n");
+        }
         for (String author : authors) {
             out.write("AU  - " + author + "\r\n");
         }
+        
         if (!producers.isEmpty()) {
             for (String author : producers) {
                 out.write("A2  - " + author + "\r\n");
@@ -495,7 +498,9 @@ private void createEndNoteXML(XMLStreamWriter xmlw) throws XMLStreamException {
         xmlw.writeEndElement(); // section
 
         xmlw.writeStartElement("abstract");
-        xmlw.writeCharacters(flattenHtml(description));
+        if(description!=null) {
+            xmlw.writeCharacters(flattenHtml(description));
+        }
         xmlw.writeEndElement(); // abstract
 
         xmlw.writeStartElement("dates");