hypercite

The hypercite package is a package for manipulating and rendering academic citations. It uses CSL-JSON as its input, and bibliographic entries are rendered using a HyperScript-compatible constructor function. It therefore integrates well with the Unified ecosystem (through hastscript).

In order to make that possible, it provides JavaScript API implementations of utility functions for working with the CSL-JSON data structures, implemented in wrapper objects that simplify access to the CSL data model.

This is currently a very early prototype.

Basic Usage

Right now it doesn't do very much:

const hc = require('hypercite');
const h = require('hyperscript');

let bib = hc.Bibliography.fromCSL(cslJson);
let render = hc.makeBibRender(hc.styles.PreJSON, h);

render.renderBibEntry(bib.lookup('my-csl-key'));

Why CSL-JSON?

CSL-JSON is a tedious and verbose format, and a lot of the logic for working with it is embedded in the Citeproc code in a form that is not easily extracted and reusable. But it is the common language for exchanging citation data; further, while I might in principle prefer BibJSON, it is not as well-specified, and citation.js can convert BibJSON to CSL-JSON but not the other way around. Therefore, using CSL-JSON as the underlying data model for hypercite maximizes interoperability.