Nutshell guidance

If you are interested in using or contributing to legal or multilingual citation styles written in CSL, you have come to the right place. If this is your first visit, begin by reading through this page, and the documents linked under Documentation in the site navigation bar. They will give you a feel for this project and its connection with Zotero, CSL, and other reference management tools.

About this site

This site provides information on legal and multilingual citation features of the citeproc-js citation formatter, for reference by bibliographic style designers, developers, and end users of Zotero and other fine reference manager products. As you all know, the processor is controlled by the Citation Style Language, and at the current version level (CSL 1.0), some extensions to the language are required for legal or multilingual citation styles to work correctly. This site provides a single point of access for information on those extensions and on styles that make use of them.

Most of the features documented here can be used with both the official Zotero client and with the unofficial Multilingual Zotero (MLZ). Features that require the multilingual client are marked as such.

Future revisions of the official CSL schema may render the MLZ extended schema unnecessary. If that happens this site will be simplified somewhat, but it will continue to serve as a hub for test-driven style development.

– Frank Bennett, August 19, 2011