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Citation Style Language

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The Citation Style Language (CSL) is an open XML-based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies. Reference management programs using CSL include Zotero, Mendeley and Papers.

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History

CSL was created by Bruce D'Arcus for use with OpenOffice.org, and an XSLT-based "CiteProc" CSL processor. CSL was further developed in collaboration with Zotero developer Simon Kornblith. Since 2008, the core development team consists of D'Arcus, Frank Bennett and Rintze Zelle.

The releases of CSL are 0.8 (March 21, 2009), 0.8.1 (February 1, 2010), 1.0 (March 22, 2010), and 1.0.1 (September 3, 2012). CSL 1.0 was a backward-incompatible release, but styles in the 0.8.1 format can be automatically updated to the CSL 1.0 format.

On its release in 2006, Zotero became the first application to adopt CSL. In 2008 Mendeley was released with CSL support, and in 2011, Papers and Qiqqa gained support for CSL-based citation formatting.

Software support

  • Zotero, Mendeley, Docear, Papers, Labstory, Pajoohyar and Qiqqa all support CSL 1.0 (Zotero also supports CSL 0.8.1 styles, which are internally updated to CSL 1.0).
  • Zotero, Mendeley, Docear, Refeus and Qiqqa rely on the citeproc-js JavaScript CSL processor.
  • CSL 1.0 processors have also been written in Haskell (citeproc-hs), PHP, Python, and Ruby.
  • Zotero, Mendeley, and Qiqqa provide a built-in CSL editor to help create and modify CSL styles.

    • Styles

    The CSL project maintains a CSL 1.0 style repository at https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles, which contains over 6000 styles. These styles can be browsed and searched via the Zotero Style Repository.

    References

    Citation Style Language Wikipedia
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