This past year was relatively quiet for Citation.js, as changes to the more prominent components (BibTeX, RIS, Wikidata) start to slow down. I believe this is a good sign, and that it indicates the quality of the mappings is high. Nonetheless, following the reworks of BibTeX and RIS in the past couple of years, some room for improvement still came up.
Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata, observed May 9th, 2021, Sint-Oedenrode, The Netherlands.
Changes
- BibTeX: The mappings of the fields
howpublished,langid, andaddendumare improved. Plain BibTeX now allowsdoi,url, and more (see below). - RIS:
PY(publication year) is now always exported, and imported more resiliently. - Wikidata: Names of institutions, and author names that differ from the person name, are now handled better.
- CSL: a single citation entry can now be exported as documented.
New plugins
- The new TeX alternative Typst came with its own YAML-based bibliographical format, Hayagriva, which can now be imported and exported in Citation.js with the new
@citation-js/plugin-hayagriva.
New users
- I started working on a publicly available API running Citation.js on Wikimedia Toolforge. This API can be used to extract bibliographical data from Wikidata items, or to import bibliographical data into Wikidata. Available at https://citation-js.toolforge.org/.
- I found out that Codeberg uses Citation.js for the “Cite this repository” feature.
New Year’s Eve tradition
After the releases on New Year’s Eve of 2016, 2017, 2021, and 2022, this New Year’s Eve also brings the new v0.7.5 release. It turns out that plain BibTeX has more fields than documented in the manual! At some point, natbib introduced the plainnat styles which include doi, eid, isbn, issn, and url. These are now supported in bibtex export, as well as strict BibTeX import. (The default, non-strict BibTeX import is basically just BibLaTeX, for which these fields were already supported.) Thank you to @jheer and @kc9jud for bringing this up!
Happy New Year!
