# Remove implementation-specific guidance from citationstyles.org?

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/remove-implementation-specific-guidance-from-citationstyles-org/812>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [January 24, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/remove-implementation-specific-guidance-from-citationstyles-org/812 "2010-01-24T23:45:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank\_Bennett](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.citationstyles.org/frank_bennett/32/198_2.png) [@Frank\_Bennett](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Frank_Bennett)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/remove-implementation-specific-guidance-from-citationstyles-org/812/1 "2010-01-24T23:45:06Z")

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The page at [http://citationstyles.org/styles/](http://citationstyles.org/styles/) provides specific  
guidance notes for installing styles in three applications that  
currently use CSL: Zotero, Mendeley and citeproc-hs. From a  
maintenance perspective, this should probably be reduced to a generic  
note referring users to the documentation of their application for  
guidance on style versions and installation, maybe with links to the  
home sites of the known apps.

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@Robert\_Knight](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Robert_Knight)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/remove-implementation-specific-guidance-from-citationstyles-org/812/2 "2010-01-26T10:02:57Z")

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Hello,

> From a maintenance perspective, this should probably be reduced to a generic  
> note referring users to the documentation of their application for  
> guidance on style versions and installation,

If maintenance is a problem then you could replace each section with a  
link to a help page for the corresponding program - though I think it  
would still be useful to the user to have specific links for each  
program rather than requiring them to go and search through the  
documentation of Zotero, Mendeley etc. themselves for the relevant  
information.

Regards,  
Robert.2010/1/24 Frank Bennett \<@Frank\_Bennett\>:

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@Robert\_Knight](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Robert_Knight)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 10:03am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/remove-implementation-specific-guidance-from-citationstyles-org/812/3 "2010-01-26T10:03:41Z")

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> If maintenance is a problem then you could replace each section with a  
> link to a help page for the corresponding program

A help page on the corresponding program’s website that is.

Regards,  
Robert.2010/1/26 Robert Knight \<@Robert\_Knight\>:

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**Author:** ![Rintze\_Zelle](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.citationstyles.org/rintze_zelle/32/175_2.png) [@Rintze\_Zelle](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Rintze_Zelle)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/remove-implementation-specific-guidance-from-citationstyles-org/812/4 "2010-01-28T14:53:46Z")

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My reason for adding the section was that I couldn’t find these help pages.

For Mendeley, I could only find  
[http://feedback.mendeley.com/pages/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/80940-additional-citation-styles?page=2](http://feedback.mendeley.com/pages/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/80940-additional-citation-styles?page=2)  
"Additionally you can define custom styles using the CSL style format which  
is also used by Zotero. In Windows the files are usually kept in C:\Program  
Files\Mendeley Desktop\citationStyles . To add new styles just drop the  
files in there and then restart the client."  
but I couldn’t find a way to link specifically to this comment.

For Zotero, there is some info at  
[http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating\_citation\_styles#importing\_and\_removing\_csl\_files\_in\_zoteroand](http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_citation_styles#importing_and_removing_csl_files_in_zoteroand)  
[http://www.zotero.org/support/styles\_faq](http://www.zotero.org/support/styles_faq), but neither wiki page is  
particularly complete.

That said, I agree that the linking to the websites of the different  
programs would be preferable.

RintzeOn Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Robert Knight \<@Robert\_Knight\>wrote: