# Request change to locale term: references

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/request-change-to-locale-term-references/668>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [June 18, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/request-change-to-locale-term-references/668 "2009-06-18T20:18:02Z")\
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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:** [June 18, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/request-change-to-locale-term-references/668/1 "2009-06-18T20:18:02Z")

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The CSL locales current contain a “references” term, which is not yet  
used by any styles in the archive. Would it be possible to replace  
this with a “reference” term that has singular and plural children?  
(Patch for en-US locale attached.)

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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:** [June 18, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/request-change-to-locale-term-references/668/2 "2009-06-18T21:48:00Z")

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The use case for this comes from the previous cs:list structure, where  
the style would include the heading.

So we either need to add this functionality back (but this ties back  
to previous discussion of multiple bibs and such), or drop the term  
altogether.

Bruce

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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:** [June 18, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/request-change-to-locale-term-references/668/3 "2009-06-18T22:02:20Z")

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> > The CSL locales current contain a “references” term, which is not yet  
> > used by any styles in the archive. Would it be possible to replace  
> > this with a “reference” term that has singular and plural children?  
> > (Patch for en-US locale attached.)
> 
> The use case for this comes from the previous cs:list structure, where  
> the style would include the heading.
> 
> So we either need to add this functionality back (but this ties back  
> to previous discussion of multiple bibs and such), or drop the term  
> altogether.

I have a separate need for this term, to cover this use case:

[ciation number display error with superscript style - Zotero Forums](http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6703/ciation-number-display-error-with-superscript-style/#Comment_29457)

The relevant CSL ticket is here:

[XBib / Feature Requests / #13 add support for different author-date forms](http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2772639&group_id=117435&atid=678021)

The functionality described in the ticket is working, I just need the  
term to provide the right in-text label in one of the possible  
permutations of the cite (citation-number style, cite as part of  
text).

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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:** [June 19, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/request-change-to-locale-term-references/668/4 "2009-06-19T12:18:00Z")

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Feel free to change the terms schema (in the split branch) as needed.