Zotero: Personal Research Assistant

Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant by ansible on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:48PM (#22695418)

From the link:

> 9500 free CSL citation styles.

Should I ask how it has come to be that there are 9500 citation styles? Or will it make me angry and depressed at the lack of cooperation and widely accepted standards?

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Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant by ajot on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:41PM (#22695968)

I believe most of them are the same, but with a different name. So, for my convenience, I don't need to think what citation style a journal uses, I just go and download the citation style with its name, even if I have the same style installed for another journal.

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Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant by retorquere on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:28AM (#22711322)

And most of such styles are so-called "substyles" -- if the master style they derive of changes, so do they.

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Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant by jccalhoun on Thursday March 26, 2020 @02:41PM (#22696522)

I would guess a lot of those are duplicates but there are also cases where it has like APA 4 styles and one for APA5, and APA6, and so on.

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