Cite Output Methods

To format data in a Cite instance, you use the Cite#format() method.

let cite = new Cite('10.5281/zenodo.1005176')

cite.format('citation')
// '(Willighagen & Willighagen, 2017)'

You can also pass options:

cite.format('citation', {
  format: 'html'
})
// '(Willighagen & Willighagen, 2017)'

With these options you can also change style, for example:

cite.format('citation', {
  template: 'vancouver'
})
// '(1)'

Examples

Some more examples. First, let's create the Cite instance itself:

let example = new Cite('10.5281/zenodo.1005176')

Now, we can choose different output_formats output options as a parameter to Cite#format(). Some examples:

• Get output in CSL-JSON as a JS object

> example.format('data', {format: 'object'})

< [{title: 'Citation.js', ...}]

• Get output in HTML in APA-style

> example.format('bibliography', {
    format: 'html',
    template: 'apa'
  })

< <div class="csl-bib-body">
    <div data-csl-entry-id="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1005176" class="csl-entry">Willighagen, L., & Willighagen, E. (2017, October 9). Larsgw/Citation.Js V0.3.3. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1005176</div>
  </div>

• Get output as a plain text BibTeX entry

> example.format('bibtex')

< @article{Willighagen2017Larsgw/Citation.Js,
    author={Willighagen, Lars and Willighagen, Egon},
    doi={10.5281/zenodo.1005176},
    pages={--},
    publisher={Zenodo},
    title={{Larsgw/Citation.Js V0.3.3}},
    year=2017,
  }

• Get output as RTF in APA-style

// First, a different source, because the other source doesn't show much text styling
const example = new Cite('Q30000000')

> example.format('bibliography', {
    format: 'rtf',
    template: 'apa'
  })

< {\rtf Miccadei, S., De Leo, R., Zammarchi, E., Natali, P. G., & Civitareale, D. (2002). The Synergistic Activity of Thyroid Transcription Factor 1 and Pax 8 Relies on the Promoter/Enhancer Interplay. {\i{}Molecular Endocrinology}, {\i{}16}(4), 837\uc0\u8211{}846. https://doi.org/10.1210/MEND.16.4.0808}

A full list of output formats, including options, is available in Output Formats.

Cite#get()

Before Cite#format() there was Cite#get(), which was a mess. Documentation can be found output_options here.