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My thought is no, that it is a useful tool but not one that helps researchers do research, but others in JOSS might have other opinions |
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Isn't authoring manuscripts a big part of daily research life, though? My main drive to work on the CSL project is to help researchers spend less time managing their citations and more time doing actual science. CSL-based software like Zotero and Mendeley also market specifically to researchers ("Your personal research assistant. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research."; "Mendeley brings your research to life, so you can make an impact on tomorrow"). But I agree it's a bit of a gray area. From our perspective, we haven't found a journal that's a better fit for CSL. Plus it's rather ironic that an open source project for citations isn't easy to cite itself, and people currently are inconsistently citing our XML specification or website, which isn't optimal (such as https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.214, https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09109, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8_8#Fn2, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb35-3/tb111stender.pdf, and https://doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467785):
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I'd like to inquire whether the Citation Style Language (CSL, https://citationstyles.org/, https://github.com/citation-style-language/) would be considered in scope for JOSS.
While more of an ecosystem than a single piece of software, CSL forms the backbone of many research-oriented citation tools (such as Zotero, Mendeley, and many others, including your Whedon: https://github.com/openjournals/whedon/pull/31/files). The CSL project offers an XML specification to describe citation formats, maintains a repository with close to 10,000 citation styles, as well as several CSL-oriented software tools (such as a CSL style formatter, validator, and editor). The CSL project does itself not develop any CSL processors (the software libraries that interpret CSL styles and reference metadata to generate rendered citations).
We use multiple licenses, primarily the MIT license for the schema, documentation, and software, and CC-BY-SA for CSL styles and locale files.