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The '''Citation Style Language''' (CSL) is an XML-Based stylesheet language for formatting of citations and bibliographies. It is used in reference management software such as [[Zotero]], [[Mendeley]], [[CiteProc]] and [[Pandoc]]. CSL was initiated by Bruce D’Arcus in the XBib project. The CSL 1.0 specification was published in March 2010.
== The idea behind CSL ==
If you know [[BibTeX]] you can compare CSL with the BibTeX style file language BAFLL (BibTeX Anonymous Forth-Like). If you know XSL than you can compare it with XSLT. The basic idea is to seperate bibliographic data and a citation styles that can be used to create nicely formatted citations.
CSL-Style
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Bibliographic record -> CSL-Processor -> Citation
CLS-Processors are available in different programming languages. The most elaborated CSL-Processor is citeproc-js.
== Getting started ==
If you use a reference management software such as Zotero you already use CLS under the hood. If you want to dig your hands into code, have a look at citeproc-js:
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js
Documentation is locatied in the manual directory or online at http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/citeproc-doc.html
== References ==
* http://CitationStyles.org - the home of the Citation Style Language (CSL)
* http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html - CSL 1.0 specification
* http://citationstyles.org/styles/ - the Zotero style repository contains hundreds of citation styles (maily in CSL 0.8)
* http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js - citeproc-js
* http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/ - XBib project (no longer maintained)
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== The idea behind CSL ==
If you know [[BibTeX]] you can compare CSL with the BibTeX style file language BAFLL (BibTeX Anonymous Forth-Like). If you know XSL than you can compare it with XSLT. The basic idea is to seperate bibliographic data and a citation styles that can be used to create nicely formatted citations.
CSL-Style
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v
Bibliographic record -> CSL-Processor -> Citation
CLS-Processors are available in different programming languages. The most elaborated CSL-Processor is citeproc-js.
== Getting started ==
If you use a reference management software such as Zotero you already use CLS under the hood. If you want to dig your hands into code, have a look at citeproc-js:
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js
Documentation is locatied in the manual directory or online at http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/citeproc-doc.html
== References ==
* http://CitationStyles.org - the home of the Citation Style Language (CSL)
* http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html - CSL 1.0 specification
* http://citationstyles.org/styles/ - the Zotero style repository contains hundreds of citation styles (maily in CSL 0.8)
* http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js - citeproc-js
* http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/ - XBib project (no longer maintained)
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''This page is licensed under CC-BA-SA and thus can be used on other pages such as Wikipedia as you like''
