lektor-citation/README.md

# lektor-citation

An APA-styled citation plugin for the lektor static content management system (https://getlektor.com).

## Preparations

Install the plugin by
```
lektor plugin add lektor-citation
```

or by copying this repository into the _packages_-folder of your lektor-project.

Create an _citation.ini_ in its _configs_-folder:
```
[Bibtex]
file = Literature.bib
```

And put a _Literature.bib_ BibTex-file into the project's _assets_-folder respectively.

## Jinja_env

To get a formated output of your whole BibTex library you can either
1. Use method citation\_short\_output in the template of your literature page. It creates an unordered list of entries.
```
  <ul id="literatur">
  {% for entry in citation_entries() %}
  {{ citation_short_output(entry)|decode|safe }}
  {% endfor %}

</ul>
```
2. Use method citation\_full\_output instead. This creates a more complete html-output for every entry.
```
  {% for entry in citation_entries() %}
  {{ citation_full_output(entry)|decode|safe }}
  {% endfor %}
```
produces
```
<h2>{title}</h2><h3>{authors} ({pubYear})</h3>
<p>{note}</p>
<dl class="literature">
<dt class="edition"></dt>
<dd>{edition}</dd>
<dt class="editors"></dt>
<dd>{editors}</dd>
<dt class="pages"></dt>
<dd>{pages}</dd>
<dt class="issbn"></dt>
<dd>{issbn}</dd>
<dt class="publisher"></dt>
<dd>{publisher}</dd>
</dl>
```
3. You may also use the citation\_entry method in combination with [pybtex*s __Entry__-class](https://docs.pybtex.org/api/parsing.html#pybtex.database.Entry). For example:

```
<ul>
  {% for entry in citation_entries() %}
<li>{{ citation_entry(entry).fields['title'] |decode }}</li>
  {% endfor %}
  </ul>
```
This creates an unordered list of all the titles of your bibtex file.
Of course you can also use citation\_entry without a loop and put any id of your bibtex entries into it as parameter.

## Limitations
It would be awesome if one could use s.th. like a _cite(id)_-function in the entire project to automatically convert it to proper links to the literature list.
Like e.g. ```<a href="/myproject/literature/#Stahl2015" class="litref">Stahl (2015)</a>```
But as the only templates can make use of the functions this won't be possible for the markdown content of the page. Or maybe I just don't know how to implement this :shrug: