Citation Style Language
Welcome to the open source Citation Style Language (CSL) project! Our goal is to facilitate scholarly publishing by automating the formatting of citations and bibliographies. We develop the Citation Style Language and maintain a crowdsourced repository with over 10,000 free CSL citation styles.
 | Proud recipient of one of the 2019 Open Publishing Awards in the Open Source Software category |
Navigating this site
- Authors – learn how to find and use our CSL citation styles
- Publishers – learn how to create CSL styles for your journals and style guides and keep these styles up-to-date
- Developers – learn how to create or edit CSL styles, how to integrate CSL into your own software, and how to contribute to CSL’s development
- Blog – for big CSL news updates
- About us – meet the CSL team and our supporters
- Contact – contact the CSL team
Software products that use CSL
Curious if your software tool of choice uses CSL? Many commercial and open source products do:
The Citation Style Language project has been sponsored by
