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README.md

biblatex-cse

A BibLaTeX citation and bibliography style implementing the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Name–Year system.

Overview

biblatex-cse provides a complete BibLaTeX style that follows the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Name–Year citation system.

It produces in-text citations like:

(Fauci and Lane 2020)
(Haasnoot et al 2021, 1287–1290)

and reference lists formatted as:

Fauci AS, Lane HC. 2020. Four decades of HIV/AIDS—much accomplished, much to do.
N Engl J Med. 383(1):1–4. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1916753

File	Description
`biblatex-cse.bbx`	Bibliography formatting (reference list)
`biblatex-cse.cbx`	Citation formatting (in-text citations)
`biblatex-cse-doc.tex`	User manual (compilable LaTeX documentation)
`bibliography.bib`	Sample bibliography

Installation

Automatic Installation

The biblatex-cse style files are distributed with biblatex. This means that, most probably, biblatex-cse is already installed in your system.

Follow the Usage instructins below. If you get the following error Package biblatex Error: Style 'biblatex-cse' not found. then do a Manual Installation.

Manual Installation

Copy the files biblatex-cse.bbx and biblatex-cse.cbx to your working directory.

Requirements

biblatex ≥ 3.20
biber ≥ 2.17
csquotes (optional, recommended)

Usage

Add to your preamble:

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=biblatex-cse]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}

Compile with pdflatex → biber → pdflatex → pdflatex or with latexmk -pdf.

Example document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=biblatex-cse]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}
\begin{document}

As shown in \textcite{Fauci2020}, ...
Recent studies confirm these results \parencite[45–47]{Lee2020a,Lee2020b}.

\printbibliography[title={References}]
\end{document}

Citation examples

Type	Example
Journal	`Author(s). Year. Title. Journal title. Volume(issue):pages. DOI`
Book	`Author(s). Year. Title. Edition. Publisher.`
Thesis	`Author. Year. Title [dissertation]. Institution.`
Online	`Author. Year. Title. Publisher; [updated YYYY Mon DD; accessed YYYY Mon DD]. URL`

Options and Customization

The style inherits all BibLaTeX options. Common tweaks:

\ExecuteBibliographyOptions{
  giveninits=true,
  maxcitenames=2,
  maxbibnames=5,
  urldate=iso,
  dashed=false
}

To reduce the bibliography font size:

\AtBeginBibliography{\small}

To make the bibliography heading follow the style of a subsection header:

\defbibheading{bibliography}{\subsection*{#1}}

Project structure

biblatex-cse/
├── biblatex-cse.bbx
├── biblatex-cse.cbx
├── biblatex-cse-doc.tex
├── bibliography.bib
└── README.md

‍ Development

Test installation

latexmk -pdf biblatex-cse-doc.tex

License

Licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) v1.3c.

Acknowledgments

BibLaTeX by Philipp Lehman and Audrey Boruvka
CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (9th ed.)
The Pygments and minted teams

Contributions

Pull requests, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome! If you use biblatex-cse, please star ⭐ the repo or share improvements.

Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (240.9k).

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