The Kitchin Research Group

• A book.¹
• An article²
• A miscellaneous bibtex type.³

There is work to do in supporting other types of entry types that are common in bibtex files.

• Regular citation:²
• citenum: See Ref. 2
• citeauthor: Kitchin
• citeyear: 2015

There is work to do in supporting other types of citations.

You can specify that the cites within a citation are consistently sorted in the export.

• a,b:^2,4
• b,a:^2,4

There is work to do for range collapsing, e.g. to turn 1,2,3 into 1-3.

I think citations should always be put in the sentence they logically belong to. LaTeX has a feature through natbib I think where for some styles, e.g. superscripts, the citations are moved to the right side of punctuation, and whitespace is chomped so the superscript is next to words, not separated by spaces. We can do that here too.

• Citation at end of sentence.²
• Citation in clause,^2,4 with a comma.
• Citation in middle of^2,4 a sentence.

At the moment, you have to add a hook function to put the replacements in the document before parsing.

(add-to-list 'load-path ".")
(require 'org-ref-citeproc)

(when (file-exists-p "readme.html") (delete-file "readme.html"))
(let ((org-export-before-parsing-hook '(orcp-citeproc)))
  (browse-url (org-html-export-to-html)))

#<process open ./readme.html>

(add-hook 'org-export-before-parsing-hook 'orcp-citeproc)

This looks promising. There is probably a lot of work to do to make this as robust as say citeproc-js or the Zotero handler. I am not sure if we could write this in a way to directly use the CSL. My feeling is it would not be as flexible as this, and we would have to add to it anyway.

Here are some remaining things that could be worked on if we continue this direction.

1. Other bibtex entries need to be tested out.
2. Remaining bibtex fields need to be defined.
3. Standardization of styling that can be done. Not all features described in my csl are supported, e.g. et. al. and probably others.
4. The author-year style needs name disambiguation somehow.
5. Hyperlinking in html.
6. Make sure export to other backends works.
7. Can this work for notes-based styles?

You use a bibliographystyle link to specify a csl. These are similar to bibtex styles, and in some cases no change is needed for LaTeX export (although you may have to remove the citeproc hook function).

1. Kittel, Charles, Introduction to Solid State Physics, (2005).
   
2. Kitchin, John R., Examples of Effective Data Sharing in Scientific Publishing, ACS Catalysis, 5(6), pp. 3894-3899 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5b00538.
   
3. Xu, Zhongnan; Rossmeisl, Jan and Kitchin, John R., Supporting data for: A linear response, {DFT+U} study of trends in the oxygen evolution activity of transition metal rutile dioxides. doi:10.5281/zenodo.12635, https://doi.org/https://zenodo.org/record/12635. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12635.
   
4. Kitchin, John R., Data Sharing in Surface Science, Surface Science , N/A, pp. in press (2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2015.05.007.