Broken Code for External Contributors

I had a little help from a co-worker in describing this issue that we’re experiencing. It seems that when posts for external authors and contributors the date and the name of the author appear like this: Jul 15, 2014 by Audrey Pettit” class=”author”>Audrey Pettit

My co-worker found that, as an administrator, I don’t have this issue when posting. Here are the details that he provided me:

Working Tags appear as follows:

<div class="meta">Jul 14, 2014 by <a class="author" href="Laura Hollar">Laura Hollar</a></div>

Broken Tags appear as follows:

<div class="meta">Jul 13, 2014 by <a rel="author external" title="Visit Jeanne Streiff’s website" inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com"="" http:="" href="<a href=">Jeanne Streiff</a>" class="author">Jeanne Streiff</div>

He says that the issue is when the external author/contributor’s website is being added to the anchor tag.