# EasyBib & CSL attribution

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/easybib-csl-attribution/881>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [August 19, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/easybib-csl-attribution/881 "2010-08-19T16:47:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Darshan\_Somashekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@Darshan\_Somashekar](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Darshan_Somashekar)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/easybib-csl-attribution/881/1 "2010-08-19T16:47:50Z")

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Hi all,

I’m one of the co-founders of EasyBib ([www.easybib.com](http://www.easybib.com)). We’re an online  
(hosted) bibliography composing service that high school and college  
students use for their citations. We get a bit over 20M users a year using  
EasyBib.

We are interested in adding CSL support to our service, which we hope will  
introduce our users to the wide range of styles out there, and make  
transitioning to / from our service easier. I wanted to ping the mailing  
list because I wanted to make sure we attribute the code we use to the  
proper people/projects.

Our current thought is to link to individual contributors associated to each  
CSL file that might be used, along with [citationstyles.org](http://citationstyles.org) as the overall  
group. We will also link to citeproc-js, since that’s what we’ll be using  
for the CSL parser. Let us know if that works and if you have any additional  
feedback.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best,  
Darshan

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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:** [August 19, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/easybib-csl-attribution/881/2 "2010-08-19T19:20:19Z")

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HI Darshan, and welcome.

> I’m one of the co-founders of EasyBib ([www.easybib.com](http://www.easybib.com)). We’re an online  
> (hosted) bibliography composing service that high school and college  
> students use for their citations. We get a bit over 20M users a year using  
> EasyBib.  
> We are interested in adding CSL support to our service, which we hope will  
> introduce our users to the wide range of styles out there, and make  
> transitioning to / from our service easier. I wanted to ping the mailing  
> list because I wanted to make sure we attribute the code we use to the  
> proper people/projects.  
> Our current thought is to link to individual contributors associated to each  
> CSL file that might be used, along with [citationstyles.org](http://citationstyles.org) as the overall  
> group. We will also link to citeproc-js, since that’s what we’ll be using  
> for the CSL parser. Let us know if that works and if you have any additional  
> feedback.  
> Looking forward to hearing from you!

So just for context for everyone, Frank and I have chatted to Darshan  
separately, and when he asked me about this issue, I was explaining  
that this is a question whose answer is still in some flux. So I’m  
curious how people are thinking about this question of attribution on  
style use.

I also mentioned to him a bit about plans for [citationstyles.org](http://citationstyles.org) and  
the csl editor and repo that I am hoping can help clarify all this.  
Alas, I haven’t gotten much feedback on my recent thoughts on this  
(about adding user authentication, commenting, etc.).

Bruce

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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:** [August 22, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/easybib-csl-attribution/881/3 "2010-08-22T16:12:42Z")

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Bumping this; any thoughts?

> HI Darshan, and welcome.
> 
> > I’m one of the co-founders of EasyBib ([www.easybib.com](http://www.easybib.com)). We’re an online  
> > (hosted) bibliography composing service that high school and college  
> > students use for their citations. We get a bit over 20M users a year  
> > using  
> > EasyBib.  
> > We are interested in adding CSL support to our service, which we hope  
> > will  
> > introduce our users to the wide range of styles out there, and make  
> > transitioning to / from our service easier. I wanted to ping the mailing  
> > list because I wanted to make sure we attribute the code we use to the  
> > proper people/projects.  
> > Our current thought is to link to individual contributors associated to  
> > each  
> > CSL file that might be used, along with [citationstyles.org](http://citationstyles.org) as the overall  
> > group. We will also link to citeproc-js, since that’s what we’ll be using  
> > for the CSL parser. Let us know if that works and if you have any  
> > additional

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Kornblith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Simon\_Kornblith](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Simon_Kornblith)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/easybib-csl-attribution/881/4 "2010-08-25T02:23:07Z")

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As I told Bruce off-list, I think that this is totally permissible, as long as there is attribution. Preferably, there would be a link to the styles themselves (particularly if they have been modified).

Simon

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**Author:** ![Darshan\_Somashekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@Darshan\_Somashekar](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Darshan_Somashekar)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/easybib-csl-attribution/881/5 "2010-09-07T13:49:01Z")

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Thanks Simon (and Frank and Bruce) for the feedback. We’ll keep the mailing  
list updated as to our progress.

Best,  
Darshan\> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:23:07 -0700