citum

The Citum command-line tool: render citations and bibliographies, check Citum-format styles and references, convert typed data files, and manage styles, locales, and registries.

Installation

cargo install citum

Pre-built binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows are also published on each release; see the GitHub releases page.

Usage

Render a document with citations:

citum render doc manuscript.djot --style apa-7th --bibliography refs.yaml

Convert a bibliography between reference formats:

citum convert refs refs.bib --from biblatex --to citum-yaml -o refs.yaml

Validate a Citum style and reference file:

citum check --style apa-7th --bibliography refs.yaml
citum check --style my-style.yaml --bibliography refs.yaml --json

Search or inspect bundled and installed styles:

citum style search chicago
citum style info apa-7th

Use citum --help for the full subcommand list, and citum <subcommand> --help for per-subcommand options.

CSL 1.0 style migration is not a citum subcommand. Developer migration tooling lives in the separate citum-migrate crate.

Builtin styles

The binary ships with curated styles (APA 7th, Chicago 18th, IEEE, MLA, AMA, and more) — use --style apa rather than supplying a file path to pick a builtin.

Project

Part of Citum, a modern citation engine in Rust. The CLI wraps the underlying citum-engine, citum-io, and citum_store crates.

License

Dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0 at your option.