# citation-style-language/styles

Official repository for Citation Style Language (CSL) citation styles.

Repository: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/citation-style-language-styles
Homepage: https://citationstyles.org/
Language: Ruby
License Family: other
Topics: citation-style-language, bibliography, citations, citation-styles, csl, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:38:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5739, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 652}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3881, forks 4144 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:28.124001+00:00)

## What it is
The official curated repository of Citation Style Language (CSL) citation styles, containing over 10,000 XML style files used to format citations and bibliographies. It is the canonical style collection relied upon by reference managers like Zotero, Mendeley, and many other scholarly publishing tools.

## Use cases
- find a citation style for a specific journal
- format bibliographies in APA or MLA style
- add a custom citation style to Zotero
- contribute a new CSL style for a journal
- integrate citation formatting into my writing tool
- download CSL styles for pandoc

## When to choose
- you need citation style files for a reference manager or document processor
- you are developing software that renders citations and bibliographies
- you need a journal-specific citation style

## When to avoid
- you need a library or processor to render citations from CSL styles (use a CSL processor instead)
- you need locale/localization files (use the CSL locales repository)

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: stable
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: education, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: csl, citation-styles, bibliography, academic-writing, xml, reference-management

## Member repositories
- citation-style-language/styles (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.124001+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:25:42.659624+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.124001+00:00, sha a97872f4c581)
  - homepage: https://citationstyles.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:19:42.989649+00:00, sha 20306af12704)
  - site_page: https://citationstyles.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:19:42.991953+00:00, sha e3222ab0a7ba)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.