ESciDoc Services CitationStyleManager

ID (Label)

CSM

Complete Name

Citation Style Manager Service

Status

Implemented

Description

This service formats the descriptive metadata of a content item (or a list of content items) in accordance with specific citation style such as APA, MLA, Chicago, MPG Yearbook citation style and others and generates a file with specific output format such as RTF, PDF or HTML.

Name	Regierungszeit	Abstammung
Stephan II.	1347–1375 Herzog von Bayern	Sohn Kaiser Ludwigs IV.
Friedrich	1375–1393 Herzog von Bayern-Landshut	Sohn Stephans II.
Heinrich XVI.	1393–1450 Herzog von Bayern-Landshut	Sohn Friedrichs
Ludwig IX.	1450–1479 Herzog von Bayern-Landshut	Sohn Heinrichs XVI.
Georg	1479–1503 Herzog von Bayern-Landshut	Sohn Ludwigs IX.

Operations

Operation	Status	Input	Output	Description
explainStyles	implemented	none	List of styles and supported output formats in accordance with the explain_styles.xsd||This operation retrieves a list of supported citation styles and for each of them supported output format such as RTF, PDF, HTML.
getOutput	implemented	String citationStyle String outputFormat String itemList	byte []	The service takes as an input citationStyle identifier, an output format identifier and a list of content items and returns a byte array with metadata formatted in accordance with selected citation style and output format. Note: in future it is planned to return a URL from where the temporary file can be downloaded.
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Identifier

American Psychological Association

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Rich Text Format

Portable Document Format

Hypertext Markup Language

Uniform Resource Locator