Support Citation Style Language (CSL) Styles in LO/OO

[georgd]

This is a feature request as discussed in #1928.
Now that CSL CitationStyles are supported for preview, it seems a logical step to support them in LO/OO as well.

[Siedlerchr]

Yeah that would be nice and I think I read somewhere that zotero supports
them in LO or OO, too but requires a plugin

[koppor]

Refs #624

[georgd]

@Siedlerchr Zotero and the CSL project are very tightly tied together and it does use CitationStyles in LO/OO.
As for the plugin, literature management tools either provide plugins for inserting citations in authoring software (like Zotero) others have them pushed from the main program like JabRef does. Some provide both (like Citavi). The advantage of a plugin is that writers don’t have to go away from the text they’re writing for inserting a reference.

[Olifair]

Being able to use CSL with LO/OO would be really great.
This is the way Mendeley is using CSL : the LibreOffice plugin offers some buttons to insert a reference (which opens a search window, one can type first author year etc and is offered a choice), merge citation, insert bibliography, refresh, chose citation style etc). For this to work, Mendeley needs to be up and running.

[georgd]

While I’d prefer a LibreOffice plugin, I think enabling CSL with the current solution should have higher priority. That’s what this issue should track.

[rmzelle]

@georgd, I'm very happy excited to see preliminary CSL support in JabRef.

A small suggestion: it might avoid confusion if you/JabRef would refer to CSL styles as, well, "CSL styles" (or "Citation Style Language styles"). I've never seen anybody use the term "CitationStyles" to refer to our project (the only exception would be our project domain name, http://citationstyles.org/, which was chosen for brevity).

Also, let us know if you have any questions where we (CSL developers) might be able to assist. E.g. apart from Zotero's official LibreOffice plugin, there are some alternative implementations that might be worth a look: https://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/, https://atom.io/packages/zotero-citations, and https://atom.io/packages/zotero-picker. (cc @adam3smith)

[koppor]

@bartsch-dev Can you do the renaming? 😇

We opt for "CSL styles" and try to use it in all documentation.

[Olifair]

I agree with georged : the current solution is pretty workable (especially if one has two screens ;-), so including cls styles in the current citation layout for the reference list in Open/Liblreoffice would be really great. Basically it's the only thing that keeps me going with Mendeley in parallel :-(
I'm no help with programming, but I would be quite willing to test.
Cheers

Oliver

[cedmfr]

Please improve the use between LO and Jabref both in connection to a document, inserting a citation, format a citation, inserting a reference list, format reference list and format its entries according to specific styles. Otherwise users have to use library in other software, what a pity for Jabref and all the work done !

[koppor]

To which software are we competing in this case? Do you know developers wanting to spend their time? Our donations (see https://donations.jabref.org) don't allow us to pay someone for that. Maybe you have other ideas for https://contribute.jabref.org? We welcome each helping hand. There are so many ideas out there and our team currently is just too small to keep up with them.