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Citation styles

Ad Marginem ships built-in formatters for six citation styles: APA 7th, MLA 9th, Chicago Author-Date, Harvard, IEEE, and Vancouver. The Word add-in surfaces the same six plus the plain style; the desktop reader, browser extension, and mobile clients all share the formatter package (@admarginem/core).

Picking a style

  • Default style — Settings → Citation Style on every client. The selection is per-account and syncs.
  • Per-document override — Word add-in Settings → Citation Style only changes that document’s bibliography.

How it works

The formatter (packages/core/src/citations/formatter.ts) renders each Paper into a CSL-style record then runs it through a per-style template. Numeric styles (IEEE) emit [1] / [2] in-text citations and order the bibliography by appearance; author-date styles emit (Lovelace 1843) and order the bibliography alphabetically.

Editing

Citations inserted via the Word add-in are wrapped in Word content controls tagged admarginem-citation:<paperId>. You can move, copy, or delete them like any other text — the scanner re-syncs the Cited list on the next selection change.

Limitations

  • Custom CSL files aren’t supported in the MVP. The six built-in styles cover ~90% of published-paper use cases; bring-your-own CSL lands later.
  • The desktop reader’s bibliographic export uses the same templates as the Word add-in, so style switches affect both.