# CSL interview

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-interview/891>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [September 24, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-interview/891 "2010-09-24T11:41:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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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:** [September 24, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-interview/891/1 "2010-09-24T11:41:32Z")

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FYI, Martin Fenner has a blog post interviewing Rintze and Ian about CSL:

[http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2010/09/24/citation-style-language-an-interview-with-rintze-zelle-and-ian-mulvany/](http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2010/09/24/citation-style-language-an-interview-with-rintze-zelle-and-ian-mulvany/)

Nice job. I thought some of Ian’s points about big publisher  
perspectives on citation formatting (they really don’t care because  
they farm out the donkey work of fixing the details to India; I’ve  
just been talking about outsourcing in my intro geography class!) were  
interesting, and new to me.

Bruce

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**Author:** ![Ian\_Mulvany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@Ian\_Mulvany](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Ian_Mulvany)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/csl-interview/891/2 "2010-09-24T11:48:41Z")

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Yeah, it used to drive me nuts when I was working in the production  
department at Springer, and I knew that the entire source would be  
hand encoded in India, after all of the work put in by authors.