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## [Welcome to the Citation Style Language CSL](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/welcome-to-the-citation-style-language-csl/8)

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**Author:** [@system](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/system)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 10, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/welcome-to-the-citation-style-language-csl/8 "2017-12-10T19:55:59Z")

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This is where we discuss development, implementation, and use of the Citation Style Language (CSL). Topics we may discuss are Issues in implementing CSL in applications Changes and developments in the CSL specification…

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## [Contribute to CSL 1.1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contribute-to-csl-1-1/1935)

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**Author:** [@flxflks](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/flxflks)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contribute-to-csl-1-1/1935 "2026-05-27T16:49:29Z")

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Hi, I have been using Zotero as my main reference managers for my dissertation. Since Zotero uses CSL, I was excited to read that CSL 1.1 would allow narrative citations. Since the original post from 2020 and teased the…

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## [\[SECURITY\] Responsible Disclosure](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/security-responsible-disclosure/1873)

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**Author:** [@rootup](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/rootup)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 24, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/security-responsible-disclosure/1873 "2024-11-24T20:09:10Z")

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Hey there, I am seeking to shared a security vulnerability under (GitHub - citation-style-language/styles: Official repository for Citation Style Language (CSL) citation styles.) could someone please redirect me to maint…

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## [Sorting citation items by year-suffix](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/sorting-citation-items-by-year-suffix/1830)

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**Author:** [@zepinglee](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/zepinglee)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2023, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/sorting-citation-items-by-year-suffix/1830 "2023-10-10T09:40:57Z")

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This problem is originally from https://github.com/zepinglee/citeproc-lua/issues/45 and I simplify it to the fixture (https://gist.github.com/zepinglee/4a3a2de7e671a1d8cff86897b75b3b84). I’m planning to sort the citation…

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## [\[solved\] Store my new csl file local and use in texstudio](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/solved-store-my-new-csl-file-local-and-use-in-texstudio/1798)

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**Author:** [@bwakkie](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/bwakkie)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 15, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/solved-store-my-new-csl-file-local-and-use-in-texstudio/1798 "2023-02-15T13:19:09Z")

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Hi, I have difficulties using my own csl file created on Visual CSL Editor I am using TeXstudio. Where do I place my .csl file so that I can do: \\usepackage{citation-style-language} \\cslsetup{style = myfancystyle} t…

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## [Is there a guide on how the citations are created based on MARC fields?](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/is-there-a-guide-on-how-the-citations-are-created-based-on-marc-fields/1778)

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**Author:** [@Ric](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Ric)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/is-there-a-guide-on-how-the-citations-are-created-based-on-marc-fields/1778 "2022-10-18T19:34:57Z")

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How can I validate a specific citation that was created, using the bibliographic records as a comparison? For example, this citation is created using fields: 245a + 245b + 100a. Kind of a guide book on what fields are …

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## [Type-dependent term locales](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/type-dependent-term-locales/1526)

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**Author:** [@larsgw](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/larsgw)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 22, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/type-dependent-term-locales/1526 "2022-05-22T13:12:36Z")

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In an issue report in Citation.js someone says that in Czech, different words should be used for the same term for different types. For example, (supposedly) volume should be “ročník” only for articles and conference pro…

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## [Use of CSL Funds 2022 Edition](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/use-of-csl-funds-2022-edition/1747)

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**Author:** [@Sebastian\_Karcher](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Sebastian_Karcher)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/use-of-csl-funds-2022-edition/1747 "2022-04-12T16:02:55Z")

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Hi everyone, Following up from the 2019 edition of this, I again want to raise the topic of spending some money for development. We currently have a little over 7,000 USD post-tax in our accounts, you can see details i…

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## [XPath or other test value of text in CSL?](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/xpath-or-other-test-value-of-text-in-csl/1729)

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**Author:** [@HughP](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/HughP)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/xpath-or-other-test-value-of-text-in-csl/1729 "2021-06-18T18:55:16Z")

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Greeting, I’m looking to try and include content from certain notes within Zotero in my CSL outputs. I’m wondering if this is possible. As I understand it, the CSL for APA annotated bibliography uses the Zotero Extra f…

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## [JSON pivot for Types](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/json-pivot-for-types/1712)

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**Author:** [@HughP](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/HughP)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/json-pivot-for-types/1712 "2021-02-06T16:16:36Z")

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Greetings, I’m not sure if this will be useful to anyone here or not but I created a pivot table of sorts for item types in: Zotero, CSL 1.0.1, CSL 1.0.2, eprints, fabio, DCMITypes, schema.org, and the Library of Congre…

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## [CSL item type "entry"](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-item-type-entry/1711)

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**Author:** [@HughP](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/HughP)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 1, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-item-type-entry/1711 "2021-02-01T14:59:26Z")

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Greetings, I am curious about the CSL type “entry”. I notice that in the 1.0.2 spec there is a definition: entry An entry in a database, directory, or catalog; For entries in a dictionary, use entry-dictionary ; Fo…

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## [CSL-JSON as JSON-LD](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-json-as-json-ld/1710)

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**Author:** [@HughP](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/HughP)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [February 1, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-json-as-json-ld/1710 "2021-02-01T00:26:46Z")

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Greetings, Somewhere, (unfortunately I can’t remember where it was, maybe github, maye here) I read a CSL team discussion about the need to indicate in a CSL-JSON file which version of CSL the JSON file was representing…

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## [CSL Namespace version](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-namespace-version/1709)

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**Author:** [@HughP](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/HughP)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 31, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-namespace-version/1709 "2021-01-31T20:02:16Z")

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Greetings, I am trying to use the Item types (appendix 3 of the CSL specification) as a controlled vocabulary within an FRBR modeled record set. I need a unique namespace declaration (URI) for each version of CSL (well …

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## [Harvard referencing](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/harvard-referencing/1707)

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**Author:** [@GoldenFlower88](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/GoldenFlower88)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 27, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/harvard-referencing/1707 "2021-01-27T15:21:16Z")

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Hello all Currently I am using Mendeley as the Reference platform for my assignments. I need to know the correct HARVARD REFERENCING for this citation: Storey, (1995) Need some help here, please !!! Thanks a million …

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## [Status/Performance of the Visual Editor](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/status-performance-of-the-visual-editor/1697)

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**Author:** [@Denis\_Maier](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Denis_Maier)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/status-performance-of-the-visual-editor/1697 "2020-11-21T03:32:22Z")

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Hi, I’ve just tried to edit a style in the visual editor. Even the most trivial changes took like forever. My browsers (firefox and chromium) crashed multiple times. Have others had similar experiences? Best, Denis

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## [Dataset items not showing a URL quick test](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/dataset-items-not-showing-a-url-quick-test/1696)

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**Author:** [@cpina](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/cpina)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/dataset-items-not-showing-a-url-quick-test/1696 "2020-11-17T19:37:46Z")

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Hi, I didn’t know where to share this information (which Discourse forum or on GitHub) and if this is of any interest (or it might be known). I know that the “dataset” type is sadly not widely used by reference manager…

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## [Demo of Haskell citeproc library](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/demo-of-haskell-citeproc-library/1693)

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**Author:** [@John\_MacFarlane](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/John_MacFarlane)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 3, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/demo-of-haskell-citeproc-library/1693 "2020-11-03T13:58:44Z")

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I’ve put up a demo of my new Haskell citeproc library here, for those interested: https://johnmacfarlane.net/citeproc/ This supersedes pandoc-citeproc, which was itself a fork of Andrea Rossato’s citeproc-hs. It is no…

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## [Cite collapse test failure](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/cite-collapse-test-failure/1678)

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**Author:** [@PaulStanley](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/PaulStanley)\
**Replies:** 21\
**Last updated:** [October 9, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/cite-collapse-test-failure/1678 "2020-10-09T14:28:34Z")

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I am getting a test failure that I don’t understand. The test is test-suite/processor-tests/humans/name\_CiteGroupDelimiterWithYearSuffixCollapse2.txt at master · citation-style-language/test-suite · GitHub. We have a ci…

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## [Disambiguation: A Probably Silly Question](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/disambiguation-a-probably-silly-question/1676)

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**Author:** [@PaulStanley](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/PaulStanley)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/disambiguation-a-probably-silly-question/1676 "2020-07-21T15:18:30Z")

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I have a probably dumb question about disambiguation. Where the spec says (of add-names): \[names\] are added one by one to all members of a set of ambiguous cites, until no more cites in the set can be disambiguated by…

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## [Is-numeric behavior, new is-numberlike test?](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/is-numeric-behavior-new-is-numberlike-test/1667)

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**Author:** [@bwiernik](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/bwiernik)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 16, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/is-numeric-behavior-new-is-numberlike-test/1667 "2020-07-16T05:55:59Z")

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There are some ambiguities (I think) and limitations of is-numeric that I think we should resolve. Per the spec, is-numeric has the following behavior: Tests whether the given variables (Appendix IV - Variables) conta…

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## [Title and Sentence Casing](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/title-and-sentence-casing/1662)

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**Author:** [@PaulStanley](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/PaulStanley)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/title-and-sentence-casing/1662 "2020-07-03T20:43:11Z")

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I’m having trouble squaring expected test results to the spec. Sentence case conversion (with text-case set to “sentence”) is performed by: For uppercase strings, the first character of the string remains capitaliz…

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## [East Asian author names and white space for separation](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/east-asian-author-names-and-white-space-for-separation/1619)

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**Author:** [@Maria](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Maria)\
**Replies:** 25\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/east-asian-author-names-and-white-space-for-separation/1619 "2020-04-24T07:22:39Z")

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CSL makes a difference between names written in East Asian writing systems (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) such that delimiters like ", " between family name and given name are collapsed. This is basically a good idea, since…

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## [Code of conduct adoption](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/code-of-conduct-adoption/1596)

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**Author:** [@Rintze\_Zelle](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Rintze_Zelle)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 26, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/code-of-conduct-adoption/1596 "2020-01-26T20:15:35Z")

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Hi all, I’d like to adopt a code of conduct for CSL, at least for our styles repository (as that is our most active and prominent repo). Per https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/4502, I propose using t…

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## [Groups, variables, and missing dates](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/groups-variables-and-missing-dates/1529)

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**Author:** [@PaulStanley](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/PaulStanley)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [December 21, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/groups-variables-and-missing-dates/1529 "2019-12-21T13:43:17Z")

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I am having trouble understanding correct behaviour with groups and missing dates. As I understood it, a group that makes an attempt to render variables which are all empty is supposed to produce nothing: anything it wo…

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## [Choose by variable value](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/choose-by-variable-value/1592)

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**Author:** [@Diplodok](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Diplodok)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 6, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/choose-by-variable-value/1592 "2019-12-06T22:58:39Z")

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Hi, everybody. I tried to find an answer in documentation, unfortunately, couldn’t I try to change an existing csl for specific journal requirement. The specifics is following: journal requires to indicate an original…

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## [Naming scheme for note styles](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/naming-scheme-for-note-styles/1575)

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**Author:** [@Denis\_Maier](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Denis_Maier)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [November 9, 2019, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/naming-scheme-for-note-styles/1575 "2019-11-09T07:39:34Z")

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Some time ago, in the Zotero forum someone requested a version of Chicago that always shows the short title in subsequent citations, and that doesn’t follow the new rule to show only the author’s last name for position="…

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## [Open Publishing Awards Nomination?](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/open-publishing-awards-nomination/1565)

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**Author:** [@Sebastian\_Karcher](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Sebastian_Karcher)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 15, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/open-publishing-awards-nomination/1565 "2019-10-15T19:55:35Z")

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Rintze already retweeted this from the CSL Twitter account – any interest in putting together a CSL nomination for the Open Publishing Awards? https://openpublishingawards.org/ Here are the criteria: Open source sof…

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## [CSL Funds & Projects](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-funds-projects/1534)

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**Author:** [@Sebastian\_Karcher](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Sebastian_Karcher)\
**Replies:** 65\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-funds-projects/1534 "2019-07-14T16:30:18Z")

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CSL occasionally receives donations and we currently have some funds left from a) a Mendeley/Elsevier dontation a while back and b) a more recent donation from ProQuest, which is using CSL styles in RefWorks (and other p…

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## [Puzzled by a year-suffix test](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/puzzled-by-a-year-suffix-test/1536)

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**Author:** [@PaulStanley](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/PaulStanley)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/puzzled-by-a-year-suffix-test/1536 "2019-04-23T20:06:17Z")

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I have encountered another test whose results I don’t understand: disambiguate\_YearSuffixTwoPairsBibliography.txt. EDITED: Forget it. My fault. As soon as I re-read it I realised it was my error. If someone can delete …

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## [The order of disambiguation: failing test](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/the-order-of-disambiguation-failing-test/1532)

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**Author:** [@PaulStanley](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/PaulStanley)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 19, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/the-order-of-disambiguation-failing-test/1532 "2019-04-19T01:42:27Z")

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It seems churlish to mention this one, given that I currently pass barely 50 percent of the disambiguation tests, and mostly fair and square fall-on-your-face failure. However: disambiguate\_ByCiteDisambiguateCondition.…

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