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When we launched the first public version of Fidus Writer in May 2013, we received a flood of bug reports. One of those reporting bugs was Emiliano Heyns, at the time a philosophy student and open source hacker, with a special interest in bibliographies and citations. Two initial reports about lacking categories in bibliographies quickly… read more |
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The 1.1 beta version is now letting users choose from eight instead of five different citation styles. Site administrators can add even more styles through the administration interface. When we first started Fidus Writer, adding citations within the text was one of our major advantages in comparison to other text editors. While we initially had… read more |
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While programming Fidus Writer, we needed something to format bibliographic citations in the text and in the bibliography. At first we programmed something simple ourselves, but it grew into a major headache to get it to work in more specific cases and more advanced options. Ian Mulvany of eLife finally pointed us to the Citation… read more |
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Are there really good reasons to have so many styles. Those of us with a more humorous view of human society will conclude that likely anyone who has been at university too long will eventually have to develop small hobbies around which to center one’s life, as the initial task set out to solve—understand the… read more |