Django Citations

Citations is a simple Django app which lets you use a citations and reference lists within your templates.

• The source code is available from https://github.com/will-hart/django-citations under an MIT license.
• You can find the package on the Python Packing Index https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-citations/.
• The latest documentation for the develop branch is available from http://django-citations.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Quick start

1. Install using:

   pip install django-citations
   

2. Add "citations" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'citations',
   )
   

3. Run python manage.py migrate to create the models.

Usage

You can use the admin panel to create references for your site. These can have a range of details including ISBN, URLs, titles, etc. Each reference must have a unique slug. This is how we will refer to the reference when we cite it within a template.

To refer to a reference in your database, you first need to load the tags in your template:

{% load citation_tags %}

You can then do the following in your template where you want the reference to appear:

{% cite "my_reference_slug" %}

You can refer to multiple references at a time by just adding new slugs separated by spaces. Note that quotation marks are required around the slugs, and slug names should not contain spaces:

{% cite "my_first_reference_slug" "my_second_reference_slug" %}

If you attempt to reference a work that is not in your reference list a TemplateSyntaxError will be raised showing the offending reference slug.

The references will be included in text as numbers - e.g. [1], or [1, 2] for multiple references. Reference objects will also be placed in the reference_list variable of the template's context.

A reference list can be included at the bottom of the document:

{% show_references reference_list %}

Importing References

If you have the package bibtexparser installed then you will have access in the admin panel to an "Upload Bibtex" button. This feature will upload a bibtex file, scan it for fields that django-citations supports and save new records.

The bibtexparser package is provided under the LGPL.

Change Log

Version 0.3

• Improved documentation
• Add new fields to database
• Add bibtex upload function, where bibtexparser is installed
• Add show_all_references tag for complete bibliography

Version 0.2.1

• Fix tags in README

Version 0.2

• Improved citation database - more fields available
• Improved reference output (uses a Harvard referencing format)

Version 1.0

• Initial version