Citation Style Language

The Citation Style Language ( CSL ) is an XML language for describing formats for bibliographic information and citation styles . The functionality is similar to the description of citation in the .bst files from BibTeX , the performance goes beyond that, however.

CSL was initiated by Bruce D'Arcus and is defined with the help of RELAX NG . The language is currently used by various reference management programs including Mendeley , Docear4Word, and Zotero .

origin

CSL was initiated by Bruce D'Arcus to be used with OpenOffice.org and as an XSLT -based CSL processor. The further development took place in cooperation with the developer of Zotero , Simon Kornblith. At the initial release in 2006, Zotero was the first application to support CSL. This was followed by other software products: 2008: Mendeley , 2011: Papers and Qiqqa , 2013: Refeus. Since 2008 the central development team has consisted of D'Arcus, Frank Bennett and Rintze cell. An integration of CSL in future versions of the standardized OpenDocument format is being considered.

Citation styles

The CSL citation styles are available through the Zotero Style Repository . It currently contains more than 8900 citation styles, which corresponds to around 1700 unique citation styles.

The continuous expansion and adaptation of the individual CSL styles is done collaboratively via GitHub as open source.

Software support

• Zotero , Mendeley , Docear , Papers , Labstory , Pajoohyar and Qiqqa support CSL 1.0 (Zotero also supports CSL 0.8.1 styles).

• Zotero , Mendeley , Docear , Refeus and Qiqqa use the JavaScript-CSL processor citeproc-js .

• CSL 1.0 programs were also created in Haskel ( citeproc-hs ), Ruby , Python , Java and XSL stylesheets .

• Zotero , Mendeley and Qiqqa provide an integrated program for creating and editing CSL.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CiteProc at OpenOffice Bibliographic Project. http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/citeproc/index.html
2. ^ OpenOffice Bibliographic Project. http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/
3. ^ Issue 4260 - Proposals for Bibliographic facility enhancements. https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=4260
4. ↑ CSL styles on GitHub. https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles
5. ↑ Jakob Voß (May 2010), "Quick introduction to the Citation Style Language (CSL)", Lightning Talk proposal European Library Automation Group Conference. http://www.slideshare.net/nichtich/voss-elag-csl2010
6. ↑ xbiblio.sourceforge.net/citeproc
7. ^ Bibliographic / Developer Page in the OpenOffice.org Wiki

Web links

• Specification and documentation
• Citation Style Language project page
• Available citation styles in the CSL description language
• WYSIWYG Style Editor (in development)