Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the vast number of standards and formats for bibliographical data, any program working with bibliographies and citations has to be able to interpret such data. This paper describes the development of Citation.js (https://citation.js.org/), a tool to parse and format according to those standards. The program follows modern guidelines for software in general and JavaScript in specific, such as version control, source code analysis, integration testing and semantic versioning.

Results

The result is an extensible tool that has already seen adaption in a variety of sources and use cases: as part of a server-side page generator of a publishing platform, as part of a local extensible document generator, and as part of an in-browser converter of extracted references

SUBMITTER: Willighagen LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7924481 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature