Features

• Modular approach: select which formats to include
• Convenient wrapper some of the most common modules
• Preloaded styles and locales for formatted references
• Support for Node.js and the browser
• A command-line interface (CLI)
• MIT licensed

Getting started

Install

$ npm install @citation-js/core @citation-js/plugin-doi @citation-js/plugin-doi

Usage

// Load Citation.js
const { Cite } = require('@citation-js/core')
// Load plugins
require('@citation-js/plugin-doi')
require('@citation-js/plugin-csl')
// Parse input
Cite.async('10.7717/peerj-cs.214').then(data => {
  // Format output
  const bibliography = data.format('bibliography', {
    format: 'html',
    template: 'apa',
    lang: 'en-US'
  })
  console.log(bibliography)
})

Supported input and output

Identifiers

File formats

Usage

• @citation-js/replacer, a simple HTML API for Citation.js, to format citations on your page as easily as possible.
• ISAAC Chrome Extension, a web extension to aid the entry of data regarding publications on the Dutch NWO ISAAC platform.
• BibTeX generator, easily generate a BiTeX file from various inputs.

In the wild

• PubPub, a platform for open publishing.
• Scholia, an interface that displays and augments data from Wikidata.
• wcite, a CLI for fetching and managing bibliographic records from Wikidata.
• Reference Extractor, an online tool to extract references from Microsoft Word and LibreOffice documents.
• Forgejo, a self-hosted Git server.

Similar projects & alternatives

• citeproc-js, the definitive implementation of CSL (also used by @citation-js/plugin-csl).
• Zotero, a manager application for references and associated files, with an extensive set of parsers and scrapers.
• astrocite, a collection of parsers that output CSL-JSON.
• Better BibTeX' bibtex-parser, an impressively extensive Bib(La)TeX parser.
• JabRef, a BibTeX-based reference manager.
• The Bib(La)TeX to CSL converter from Fidus Writer.

How to cite

Willighagen, L. G. (2019). Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line. PeerJ Computer Science, 5, e214. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.214