django-citations 0.1

A simple Django app to include citations and reference lists in your templates.

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

Quick start

1. Add “citations” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'citations',
   )

2. Run python manage.py migrate to create the polls 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 %}