Specify CSL styles on RMarkdown

Question

I am trying to specify a CSL style on my RMarkdown Document as below

---
documentclass: article
fontsize: 12pt
linkcolor: blue
output: pdf_document
bibliography: bibliography.bib
csl: biomed-central.csl
---

but it gives me an error

pandoc-citeproc.exe: biomed-central.csl: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
pandoc.exe: Error running filter pandoc-citeproc
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 83

On Windows 7 64 bit and R Version 3.1.2 and RStudio 0.98.1091 How can I specify a CSL style.

Ahn

the error is very helpful. where is the file? you need to use the path if it's not in the same directory – Crept

the CSL file is under the Pandoc folder ~\AppData\Local\Pandoc – Ahn

do you still get error if you use csl: ~/appdata/local/pandoc/biomed-central.csl? – Crept

pandoc-citeproc.exe: InvalidUrlException "~/appdata/local/pandoc/biomed-central.csl" "Invalid scheme" – Ahn

Thanks @Crept It works if I put the biomed-central.csl on the same folder with the .RMD file – Ahn

Answer 1

Include the .csl file in your working directory. you can download the .csl file from here

Ahn

+1. This works. Is it a bug that I cannot specify a path to the .csl in a location other than the working directory? – Irritable

just like LaTeX everything is within the working directory path. – Ahn

Answer 2

In addition to @Keniajin's answer, we can specify an absolute or relative path if we put it in quotes, e.g.

csl: "<folder>/biomed-central.csl"  # path to child folder
csl: "../biomed-central.csl"  # path to parent folder
csl: "X:/<folder>/biomed-central.csl"  # absolute path (in windows)

Besides, the same we can do with other linked files like *.bib or *.tex.

Resorcinol

Answer 3

You can also specify an absolute path. This works, at least on my Linux system.

Boise