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CERVANTES BEYRA, Rafael et al. Development of a citation style language CSL to describe the formatting of citations, notes and bibliographies of agricultural scientific articles. Rev Cie Téc Agr [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.1, pp.51-58. ISSN 2071-0054.

The development of files of citation styles that could be connected to reference management softwares is a viable option to reduce the errors in form of the articles sent to the agricultural journals. Sometimes, the publishing house committees do tedious works of bibliographical correction that often end with the return of numerous documents for this reason. The styles CSL (processors of citation, notes and bibliographies) describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies according to the styles of every journal and can be loaded by a wide range of citation programs; therefore constitute a powerful and indispensable tool in the making of scientific article. For that reason, the objective of this work was to development a citation style language CSL based on the guidelines ISO 690:2010 to describe the formatting of citations, notes and bibliographies of the agricultural scientific articles of the Revista Ciencias Tecnicas Agropecuarias (RCTA). For it, was used the CSL scheme v1.0, with complex XML based language, character encoding utf-8 and formatting of citations in text author-date. The operations of edition and validate were realized with the text editor Notepad ++ v4.7.5, the Visual (on-line) Publishing CSL and the (on-line) Validator.nu. As result, was obtain a file CSL that is supported by 25 reference managers that allows formatting the citations, notes and bibliographies of the agricultural scientific articles through of the style of the journal RCTA, according to the guidelines ISO 690:2010.

Palabras clave : reference manager; citation style language; agricultural scientific articles.

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