Theisen citationsstyle

Crystalofarc
edited April 14, 2019
Hey there!

Is there a possibility to intergrate a ccs file?
It's the "Theisen citation" from the program citavi....

But the citavi styles are a ccs file, and zotero is csl style.
  • RintzeRintze
    No, Zotero doesn't support the Citavi style format, and it's not possible to convert a CCS file to a CSL one.
  • pietsch
    Are there any plans to implement a ccs2csl converter, possibly as a stand-alone XSLT stylesheet?
  • adamsmith
    not that I'm aware of. Is CCS an open format?
  • pietsch
    Well, it looks like XML.
  • adamsmith
    Going by the experience with the .ens styles that Zotero at some point converted internally, I'm not sure if this is going to be worth it - leaving legal issues aside (and going by past contact with Citavi devs, my sense is that they'd be much less lawsuit-trigger-happy than Thompson Reuters) - citation style systems follow different logics and often don't translate all that well, so that there'd be a lot of manual work left to get a style right once converted. Obviously that's just an educated guess.

    Beyond that, given that Citavi is of now basically limited to the German-language market, writing a conversion script would likely fall on CSL users based in Germany - you interested?
  • RintzeRintze
    I found an example here: http://support.citavi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=3347#p11021

    It doesn't like very readable (or concise). I wrote most of the XSLT stylesheet to upgrade CSL 0.8.1 styles to the CSL 1.0 format, which was already a significant undertaking. Writing any kind of code that converts CCS to CSL is going to be a very painful affair that's unlikely to be worth the effort.
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