# citation formatting API

**URL:** https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/citation-formatting-api/900
**Category:** CSL Development
**Created:** [October 23, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/citation-formatting-api/900 "2010-10-23T20:11:41Z")
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### Author: ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/citation-formatting-api/900/1 "2010-10-23T20:11:41Z")

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It occurs to me that something like this use case would benefit from a  
standard citation-formatting API?

[http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/14866/more-open-api-can-this-lead-to-a-better-wordpress-plugin/#Comment\_73603](http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/14866/more-open-api-can-this-lead-to-a-better-wordpress-plugin/#Comment_73603)

Bruce