ESciDoc Services CitationStyleManager

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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 definition for styles 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.

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, SNIPPET*.
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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• SNIPPET - this is an XML format of the data, defined by the eSciDoc Item.xsd schema. It is enriched with the HTML formatted output of the selected citation style e.g. APA as

  <dcterms:bibliographicCitation/>

  in the

  <content-model-specific/>

  part of the item XML representation.

Identifier

American Psychological Association

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Rich Text Format

Portable Document Format

Hypertext Markup Language

Uniform Resource Locator

Extensible Markup Language

Enhanced Scientific Documentation