Citation Styles for Lancaster University

This repository contains Citation Style Language (CSL) files and example reference collections for supported reference management software.

Referencing Guides

Harvard

The Harvard referencing guide describes Lancaster University's variant of the Harvard referencing style.

Citation Style Language Files

Citation styles are defined using the Citation Style Language.

See the CSL documentation for information on how to write a style definition.

The CSL style repository is the official collection of published CSL styles. To contribute a CSL definition to the repository, see the Guide to Submitting CSL Styles.

Example Reference Databases

CSL definitions should be tested in each supported reference manager against a set of test references. The test reference databases contain the examples given in the referencing guides.

Zotero

zotero.rdf contains a collection named Reference Examples. Import using File -> Import -> A file (it's not necessary to import into a new collection).