CSL-JS

Lightweight CSL Engine. WIP.

Table of Contents

• Get Started
• API
  • Registering/parsing locales & styles
  • Formatter
• Features
• TODOs

Get Started

NPM install:

 npm i csl-js

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Use: (API usage below)

const { Formatter, locales, styles } = require('csl-js')

API

Registering/parsing locales & styles

const style = await (await fetch('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/citation-style-language/styles@master/apa.csl')).text()
styles.set('apa', style)

const style = await (await fetch('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/citation-style-language/locales@master/locales-en-US.xml')).text()
locales.set('en-US', parsed)

Formatter

Create:

const formatter = new Formatter({
  style: '...',
  lang: '...',
  format: '...'
})

Format: (data in CSL-JSON format)

formatter.formatBibliography(data)
// (1957). Correlation of the Base Strengths of Amines 1 () []. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 79(20), 5441-5444. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01577a030

formatter.formatCitation(data)
// (1957)

Features

• cs:text, cs:number, cs:label, cs:choose, cs:group, cs:date, cs:layout, cs:macros
• locales
• formatting, affixes, delimiter, strip-periods (mostly, anyway)
• bibliography

Missing spec features

• names
• disambiguation
• date ranges, BC
• better number handling
• cs:citation
• sorting
• reference manager
• term genders
• jsdoc and documentation & examples
• test suite