Editing Styles

At this point there are no dedicated tools to create or modify CSL styles. However, styles can be edited manually in any (plain) text editor (e.g. Notepad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac OS X). Note that text editors with XML support can be of great benefit by offering features like syntax highlighting and real-time validation. Popular choices are the oXygen XML Editor, emacs in nXML mode, and jEdit (the latter does not offer RELAX NG XML validation).

The following sources are good starting points to learn how to edit CSL styles:

• http://citationstyles.org/downloads/primer.html
• http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles