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Published in Citation Style Language
Author Rintze M. Zelle

The Citation Style Language (CSL) team is happy to announce CSL 1.0.1. CSL 1.0.1 is an (almost completely) backwards compatible release, and CSL 1.0 styles and locale files don’t have to be updated to work with CSL 1.0.1-compatible software. CSL 1.0.1 is a relatively minor update, but adds a variety of new features to CSL, and an extra layer of polish to both the specification and schema.

Published in Citation Style Language
Author Rintze M. Zelle

The Citation Style Language (CSL) team is proud to announce CSL 1.0, a free and open XML language for the formatting of citations and bibliographies. A New Home CitationStyles.org is the new home of the CSL project, hosting the schema, documentation, project news, and more. In the near future CitationStyles.org will also host the style repository currently found at www.zotero.org/styles.

Published in Front Matter

Citation styles are one of the greater mysteries for the novice manuscript writer. There are numerous ways that authors, title, journal, etc. can be arranged and formatted (see examples below), and in bibliographies citations can be ordered either alphabetically or by order of appearance in the text. Laemmli UK . Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4.

Published in Front Matter

The Sloan Foundation has awarded a $125,000 grant to Columbia University and Mendeley to fund the development of a Citation-Style Language (CSL) editor. CSL is a XML-based language to format citations and bibliographies, and is used by the reference managers Zotero, Mendeley and Papers, and in many other places.

Published in Front Matter

According to the description on the Citation Style Language (CSL) website, CSL is an open XML-based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies . We use reference managers such as Zotero , Mendeley , or Papers to format our references in manuscripts we submit for publication, and underneath a CSL processor such as Citeproc-js -

Published in Citation Style Language
Author Rintze M. Zelle

For their third straight year, Mendeley and Elsevier have kindly supported the open source Citation Style Language project with a $5000 donation. Donations allow us to hire developers for small projects, purchase materials such as the latest style manuals, and support our style repository maintainers. We’re very grateful for this continuing sponsorship! In July, Carles Pina from Mendeley also updated over 150 CSL styles for Elsevier journals.

Published in Citation Style Language

Over the past few months, Citation Style Language developers have worked to address a backlog of feature requests. This work will be reflected in two upcoming releases. The first of these, 1.0.2, is slated for release shortly. Its focus is on easy to implement, non-controversial additions, principally new item types, fields, and terms.

Published in Front Matter

Version 2.1 of the reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. The biggest change for me is the support of Citation Style Language (CSL) 1.0. CSL is an open XML-based standard for citations and bibliographies. Older versions of Zotero used CSL 0.8.1, but the improved CSL 1.0 was released a year ago.