This issue here is supposed to be for students and tries to explain the issue more clearly and broader as is done in the original issue (#2146). It also aims at preventing external CSL maintainers from being spammed with too many unnecessary JabRef related messages and requests.

Background info:

For the OpenOffice (OO) and LibreOffice (LO) integration, JabRef offers to format citations in various Styles. These styles are also referred to as JStyles. They are used by importing OO/LO Style files into JabRef. Please check out JabRef's LO/OO documentation for further information.

Problems:

1. The amount of JStyles offered by JabRef is very low.
2. Important and popular ones like APA, IEEE and others are missing.
3. Users having to create or adjust JStyle files is undesirable for various reasons:
   • Users may not have the expertise
   • Users may not have the time

Solution:

Support Citation Style Language (CSL) Styles in the LO/OO integration as originally proposed in #2146. That means, users should be able to select CSL styles somewhere in the "select styles" dialogue of the OO/LO integration.

There could potentially be two tabs: One for CSL styles, a separate tab for Jstyles.