a CSL style suitable for Zotero, Mendeley, etc. designed for use on StackExchange sites (especially biology.stackexchange.com)

stackexchange-style.csl

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<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0" demote-non-dropping-particle="sort-only" default-locale="en-US">
  <info>
    <title>Biology.SE</title>
    <id>http://phyta.org/biology-stackexchange-style</id>
    <link href="https://gist.github.com/Blahah/5681588" rel="self"/>
    <author>
      <name>Richard Smith</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </author>
    <category field="biology"/>
    <category citation-format="author-date"/>
    <updated>2012-04-28T16:01:02+00:00</updated>
    <summary>A style for posting in StackExchange question/answer markdown</summary>
    <rights>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</rights>
  </info>
  <macro name="editor">
    <names variable="editor">
      <label form="short" text-case="lowercase" suffix=" "/>
      <name and="text" delimiter=", " initialize-with=".">
        <name-part name="family" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
        <name-part name="given" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
      </name>
    </names>
  </macro>
  <macro name="series-editor">
    <names variable="original-author">
      <label form="short" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
      <name and="text" delimiter=", "/>
    </names>
  </macro>
  <macro name="author">
  <group prefix="**" suffix="**">
    <names variable="author">
      <name name-as-sort-order="all" sort-separator=" " delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="always" initialize-with=""/>
      <label form="short" prefix=", "/>
      <substitute>
        <names variable="editor"/>
        <names variable="translator"/>
      </substitute>
    </names>
</group>
  </macro>
  <macro name="author-short">
    <group prefix="**" suffix="**">
    <names variable="author">
      <name form="short" and="text" delimiter=", "/>
      <substitute>
        <names variable="editor"/>
        <names variable="translator"/>
      </substitute>
    </names>
    </group>
  </macro>
  <macro name="haslink">
    <choose>
          <if variable="DOI">
            <text value="["/>
          </if>
          <else-if variable="URL">
            <text value="["/>
          </else-if>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="link">
    <choose>
          <if variable="DOI">
            <text prefix="(http://dx.doi.org/" variable="DOI" suffix=")"/>
          </if>
          <else-if variable="URL">
            <text prefix="(" variable="URL" suffix=")"/>
          </else-if>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="title">
    <choose>
      <if type="thesis">
        <text variable="title"/>
      </if>
      <else-if type="bill book graphic legal_case legislation motion_picture report song" match="any">
        <text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
      </else-if>
      <else>
        <text variable="title"/>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <macro name="publisher">
    <group delimiter=", ">
      <text variable="publisher"/>
      <text variable="publisher-place"/>
    </group>
  </macro>
  <macro name="year-date">
    <date variable="issued">
      <date-part name="year"/>
    </date>
  </macro>
  <macro name="day-month">
    <date variable="issued">
      <date-part name="month"/>
      <date-part name="day" prefix=" "/>
    </date>
  </macro>
  <macro name="page">
    <label variable="page" suffix=" " form="short"/>
    <text variable="page"/>
  </macro>
  <macro name="edition">
    <choose>
      <if is-numeric="edition">
        <group delimiter=" ">
          <number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
          <text term="edition" form="short"/>
        </group>
      </if>
      <else>
        <text variable="edition" suffix="."/>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>
  <citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year">
    <layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
      <group delimiter=", ">
        <group delimiter=" ">
          <text macro="author-short"/>
          <text macro="year-date"/>
        </group>
        <text variable="locator"/>
      </group>
    </layout>
  </citation>
  <bibliography hanging-indent="true" et-al-min="11" et-al-use-first="10">
    <sort>
      <key macro="author"/>
      <key variable="title"/>
    </sort>
    <layout prefix=" - " suffix="">
      <group delimiter=" ">
        <text macro="haslink"/>
        <text macro="author" suffix="."/>
        <text macro="year-date" suffix="."/>
      </group>
      <choose>
        <if type="article-newspaper article-magazine" match="any">
          <group delimiter=" ">
            <text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
          </group>
          <group prefix=" " delimiter=", ">
            <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
            <text macro="day-month"/>
            <text variable="edition"/>
          </group>
        </if>
        <else-if type="thesis">
          <text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
          <group prefix=" " delimiter=", ">
            <text macro="edition"/>
            <text macro="editor" suffix="."/>
            <text variable="genre"/>
            <text macro="publisher"/>
          </group>
        </else-if>
        <else-if type="bill book graphic legal_case legislation motion_picture report song" match="any">
          <group delimiter=" ">
            <text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
            <text macro="edition"/>
            <text macro="editor" suffix="."/>
            <text macro="publisher"/>
          </group>
        </else-if>
        <else-if type="chapter paper-conference" match="any">
          <group delimiter=" ">
            <text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
            <group delimiter=", ">
              <group delimiter=" ">
                <text term="in" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
                <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
                <text macro="editor" prefix=" (" suffix=")"/>
              </group>
              <group delimiter=" ">
                <text variable="volume" prefix="Vol. " suffix=" of"/>
                <text variable="collection-title" font-style="italic"/>
                <text macro="series-editor"/>
              </group>
              <text macro="page"/>
              <text macro="publisher" prefix=" "/>
            </group>
          </group>
        </else-if>
        <else>
          <group suffix=".">
            <text macro="title" prefix=" "/>
            <text macro="editor" prefix=" "/>
          </group>
          <group prefix=" " suffix="." delimiter=" ">
            <text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic" strip-periods="true"/>
            <group delimiter=": ">
              <text variable="volume" font-weight="bold"/>
              <text variable="page"/>
            </group>
          </group>
        </else>
      </choose>
      <text prefix="]" macro="link" suffix=""/>
    </layout>
  </bibliography>
</style>