Lightning talk proposal for ELAG2010 conference. I definitely need to cut some slides to keep it in 10 minutes!

1. Quick introduction to the Citation Style Language (CSL) Jakob Voß Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) Lightning Talk proposal European Library Automation Group Conference May 2010

4. Best open standard: BibTeX. Which sucks! @book{nelson1987, edition = {87.1}, title = {Literary machines}, isbn = {0-89347-055-4}, publisher = {Mindful Press}, author = {Theodor Holm Nelson}, year = {1987} } T.H. Nelson, Literary machines , Mindful Press, 1987. Nelson, T.H., 1987. Literary machines edition 87.1, Mindful Press. Nelson TH. Literary machines . 87. ed. Mindful Press; 1987. Nelson, T.H. Literary machines . (Mindful Press: 1987). Bibliographic Data Nicely formatted

5. Citation Style Language (CSL) CSL processor citation style (in CSL) bibliographic & citation records bibliography & citations

7. Huge Zotero stylesheet repository (CSL 0.8)

8. Mendeley (et al) work on WYSIWYG editors http://bitbucket.org/csledit/csl-wysiwyg-editor <!-- example snipped from the Chicago Manual of Style in CSL --> <macro name=&quot;container-contributors&quot;> <choose> <if type=&quot;chapter&quot;> <group delimiter=&quot;, &quot;> <choose> <if variable=&quot;author&quot;> <names delimiter=&quot;, &quot; variable=&quot;editor&quot;> <label form=&quot;verb&quot; suffix=&quot; &quot; text-case=&quot;lowercase&quot; /> <name and=&quot;text&quot; delimiter=&quot;, &quot; /> </names> </if> </choose> ...

11. PHP http://bitbucket.org/rjerome/citeproc-php

12. Phython http://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-py/

13. Ruby http://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-rb/

17. date fields (issued, original-date...)

20. Much already done in Zotero

22. Output in HTML+CSS , RTF, LaTeX, XSL-FO...

23. Basic formatting capabilities indent block left-margin right-inline bold light italic SMALL -CAPS underline sup sup

24. Thanks and kudos to Frank Bennett Rintze Zelle Bruce D'Arcus visit CitationStyles.org