How to format single citation reference and references list?

[aborruso]

Description

Hi,
I'm building a quarto book project. Code and output.

I have some goals related to my bibliography file.

The first one is to cite one of its items and in the output to have its label and the link to it.

To write something like See at [@CAD], and to have back "See at CAD".

In the default way I have "See at («"Decreto legislativo 7 marzo 2005, n. 82 recante ""Codice dell’amministrazione digitale"""», s.d.)".

Reading the documentation, it does not seem possible to do so.

In the reference page, I have the default style. I would like to have back different template, something like:

• **label**, [title](url)

In my example:

• CAD, Decreto Legislativo 7 Marzo 2005, n. 82 Recante ""Codice Dell’amministrazione Digitale"

And a last related question. I have in the output s.d., I think because I have no "date" in the reference file. Is there any way not to have it in the output?

Thank you and best wishes 🎄

[aborruso]

Hi,
I have update my site and partially solved my questions.

I have created a cls file and now I can reference a reference id and have in output only the ID and the link to reference.
I write See at [@CAD] and I get

But I have two opened problems:

• in the reference page I have only one item, and not all the bib items;
• In the cls I have set a style for citations list, But it is not applied. Why? I have set nocite: '@*'

Thank you

[cderv]

By cloning your repo, I noticed that if I do quarto render references.qmd it will probuce all the references, but quarto render on the project does not. 🤔

Can you confirm this ?

[cderv]

Could you set this in your _quarto.yml ?
https://github.com/aborruso/linee-guida-opendata/blob/21376661731318600ab7e3e94884bd08da9820ae/references.qmd#L1-L5

bibliography: references.bib
nocite: '@*'
csl: lg.csl

and not in the references.qmd document directly ?

[cderv]

It seems you did already... 🤔
https://github.com/aborruso/linee-guida-opendata/blob/adc790d6eb71a8e01c6949838697dffbd6715781/_quarto.yml#L64-L66

I can't reproduce the issue on a demo book by setting these fields in _quarto.yml

• I created a template book using quarto create project
• Added in intro.qmd the follow to generate a bib file

```{r}
#| include: false
knitr::write_bib(c("knitr", "rmarkdown"), "references.bib")
```

• Added no reference to any of those, but added this config in _quarto.yml

bibliography: references.bib
nocite: '@*'

It works ok using quarto render

[aborruso]

and not in the references.qmd document directly ?

Thank you @cderv, it works. But is it correct that it didn't work the way I had set it up?

Aggiungo un'altra domanda. I would like to format this list, and have for example in bold the id label.
I've made many attempts, but if I enter ** or <b> in my csl file I don't get the bold, but the print of ** and <b>.

Do you have an example to show me how I could do that?

Thank you again

[aborruso]

It seems you did already... 🤔

Yes, 6 minutes ago, after your precious reply. I wanted to test before I answered you.

[cderv]

I would like to format this list, and have for example in bold the id label.

This would be CSL syntax. I don't know how to tweak it. To write your own CSL, you need to look into CSL spec (I see a formatting section https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#formatting) and adapt it.

You'll find some example in the Citation Style github repo: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acitation-style-language%2Fstyles%20font-weight&type=code

Hopefully you'll manage to do it