diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 73d3f4e..6479191 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: rscopus
 Type: Package
 Title: Scopus Database 'API' Interface
-Version: 0.7.1
+Version: 0.7.2
 Authors@R: person(given = "John", family = "Muschelli", 
     role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "muschellij2@gmail.com")
 Maintainer: John Muschelli <muschellij2@gmail.com>
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ Suggests:
 URL: https://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html, 
     https://github.com/muschellij2/rscopus
 BugReports: https://github.com/muschellij2/rscopus/issues
-RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
 Encoding: UTF-8
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
diff --git a/R/bibtex_core_data.R b/R/bibtex_core_data.R
index e8a826b..47e3e41 100644
--- a/R/bibtex_core_data.R
+++ b/R/bibtex_core_data.R
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ bibtex_core_data = function(x) {
   if (!is.null(title)) {
     title = trimws(title)
     split_title = strsplit(title, " ")[[1]]
+    split_title = gsub("[[:punct:]]", "", split_title)
   } else {
     warning("Title is NULL!")
     split_title = NA_character_