Org cite

This provides a mapping from possible org-cite style and sub-style names to different export formats.

Style Names and Mappings

For citeproc-org, the asterisk represents a suggested supported style.

org-cite style	org-cite shortcut	natbib	biblatex	citeproc-org	notes
default (no style)		\citep	\autocite	default
text	t	\citet	\textcite	*
author	a	\citeauthor	\citeauthor	*
title	ti		\citetitle	*
year	y	\citeyear	\citeyear	*
locators	l		\pnotecite	*	page numbers and such only (p23)
nocite	n		\nocite	*

Note that CSL implementations like citeproc-el are based around biblatex autocite-like functionality as default. The CSL style controls how the default cite command is formatted. While this is less-flexible than biblatex, for example, it's simpler for the user, as you use the same base command regardless of whether you are using an author-date, numeric, or note-based style.

Variants

A number of citation system allow styles variants; for example, dropping enclosing punctuation to integrate the full citation in text.

• alt bare (b) (removes citation enclosing punctuation; for example cite:locators/alt -> biblatex \notecite)
• full (f) (rather than shortened, author list; for example \citet*)
• caps (c) (force initial capitalization)

TBD: exactly how this is supported.

Sub-style option

Currently in the branch, sub-styles are full input parameters, delimited with a slash [cite:/text/caps:...].

Simple option

A convention to append something like these to the list of core styles:

• bare (b)
• caps (c)
• full (f)
• bare-caps (b+c)
• bare-full (b+f)
• bare-caps-full (b+c+f)
• caps-full (c+f)

Could either be as:

1. a simple string sub-style [cite:/t/c+f:...]
2. no sub-styles at all; just have [cite/text+caps-full:...], or with shortcuts [cite/t+c-f:...]

Caveats

Not all styles and sub-styles are relevant to all intermediate output formats or final output styles.

• in text/alt the sub-style overrides the style, at least in author-date citation styles
• in year/caps the sub-style has no effect
• etc (todo)