Use .csl or .ccs for bibtex

Question

I am wanting to write my thesis with LaTeX. My problem is, that my university demands a certain citation style, which they provide as a .csl or .ccs file.

Is there some way to use that in LaTeX / BibTeX?

Welcome! Can you check your question? I'm assuming there was a typo in the subject and you meant .ccs. If not, there was presumably one in the body and you meant .css. (But it seems odd for a university to provide a style as CSS.) What are .csl and/or .ccs? — cfr, Oct 21 '15 at 21:39
I've never heard of either of these formats: can you link to one? — Joseph Wright, Oct 21 '15 at 21:39
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_Style_Language perhaps? In that case, 'no, not directly', but it is just a description of the format, which can be reproduced. — Joseph Wright, Oct 21 '15 at 21:42
No. See Is it possible to convert a citation style language (csl) style file to a bibtext (bst) style file? — koppor, Oct 21 '15 at 22:55
thanks a lot for your help!
so the style the provide is this one: (.csl) https://www.zotero.org/styles/universitatsmedizin-gottingen and I guess .csl is what zotero uses?

the .ccs (citavi) I found here: https://support.citavi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=5469

so I've tried to look into the .bst I have always used for my other work, but really have not a bit of clue how to adapt it to the uni's requirements.... :( is there some easy way to create an according .bst? — Knut, Oct 22 '15 at 20:36

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '15 at 19:39

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Pandoc can read and write texfiles and use csl files to generate citations and bibliography. So, you can try something like: pandoc File.tex --bibliography=Bibfile.bib --csl=Mycsl.csl -o FileWithBib.tex and then latex FileWithBib.tex.

If you use this, you must write the preamble in FileWithBib.tex

answered Oct 25 '15 at 19:39

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okay thanks, I'll try that. But I'm wondering, when I use pandoc, will I still ave the bibliography compiled with pandoc in my output pdf that I create with latex? Or do I use pandoc to compile the .tex in the first place? Sorry, but I don't really understand what exactly pandoc is doing... – Knut Oct 26 '15 at 20:04
Oh, reading your answer again, I guess I compile the FileWithBib.text in latex and that will have the bibliography of interest included, right? pandoc confuses me ;) – Knut Oct 26 '15 at 20:06
Yes with this strategy pandoc is use just for formating the bibliography. In the FileWithBib.tex we have the citing formated as define in the cls and the bibliography at the end of the file. You must rework a little FileWithBib.tex (pandoc create links in the bibliography). – Corto Oct 29 '15 at 12:52

Use .csl or .ccs for bibtex

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