csl-to-markdown

Makes your Zotero's/Mendeley's bibliography export compatible with markdown.

Download

Download the last release here.

Usage

1- Make your csl file compatible with markdown. See the full list of styles here.

On unix based system :

./csl_to_markdown -i input_file.csl -o output_file.csl
./csl_to_markdown -i input_file.csl > output_file.csl

On windows :

./csl_to_markdown.exe -i input_file.csl -o output_file.csl
./csl_to_markdown.exe -i input_file.csl > output_file.csl

2- Add this new style to Zotero/Mendeley.

Zotero : See how to install a citation style from a file.

Mendeley : View → Citation Style → More styles → Get More Styles → in "Download style field" type : file:///path_to_your/csl_file.csl.

3- Use this new style to create your bibliography.

Zotero : See how to create a bibliography. Dont forget to select the good citation style before exporting your bibliography.

Mendeley : See How to copy & paste formatted citations anywhere.

Building and testing

Requirements

You need to install Rust see to test and build this code.

Test

cargo test

Build

cargo build --release

Acknowledgement

This sofwtare is inspired by this blog article : "Markdown et Zotero".

Licence

This software is distributed under the MIT licence.