citations

Conclusions from citations breakout group at #mdsci13:

Citations should be specified as citation keys (e.g. [@smith2010]. Pandoc and Multimarkdown both support human-readable formatting for this, but use different formatting.

We identified two use cases:

• fragment of a scientific document
• complete document, e.g. manuscript for paper

Reference information should be stored in an external bibtex file, which could be referenced by a link or be in the same folder as the markdown file, specified in the metadata.

Citation styles should be processed using Citeproc and the Citation Style Language. Citation style can optionally be specified in the metadata.

Questions from the audience :)

Stian: Is there any good online collaborative citation manager that supports citekeys (defining/seeing)?

Citation Styles

How to cite documents

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Exporting your library to a bibtex file

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Downloading styles

This repo contains citation styles for most journals. Download a copy of the repo somewhere locally by running:

git clone git://github.com/citation-style-language/styles.git