CiteProc

CiteProc is the generic name for programs that produce formatted bibliographies and citations based on the metadata of the cited objects and the formatting instructions provided by Citation Style Language (CSL) styles. The first CiteProc implementation used XSLT 2.0, but implementations have been written for other programming languages, including JavaScript^[1], Haskell^[2], PHP, Python, and Ruby.

CiteProc, CSL, and Cite Schema make up the XBib project, a GPL-licensed effort "to provide a common framework for formatting bibliographies and citations across markup languages and document standards. In an ideal world, one could use the same CSL files to format DocBook, TEI, OpenOffice, WordML ... or even LaTeX documents."^[3]

Different implementations of CiteProc are able to use different bibliographic databases; many can use MODS XML.

Applications that support CiteProc

• Mendeley
• Papers
• Qiqqa
• Zotero

References

1. ^ citeproc-js
2. ^ citeproc-hs
3. ^ Xbiblio homepage

External links

• Citeproc homepage
• Citation Style Language project home