CASRAI Citation Generator

Spec sheet

Purpose

The generator creates citations from CASRAI URLs, including dictionary terms, CRediT roles, federation pages, and editorial articles.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Audience

CASRAI describes its standards as serving researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers exchanging research-administration information.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Maker

CASRAI identifies itself as the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information, a community-stewarded standards organisation founded in 2006.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Citation formats

It offers APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, BibTeX, RIS, CSL JSON, JATS XML, and JSON-LD formats.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Citation licence

Generated citation strings are released under CC-BY 4.0 and may be used in commercial publications with CASRAI credited as the source.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Citation metadata

All generated forms include version and licence metadata.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

CSL compatibility

The page says CSL JSON is valid Citation Style Language input that works directly in Pandoc, Zotero, and CSL-aware processors.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Fallback behaviour

Other CASRAI URLs fall back to a generic WebPage citation.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Plain-text limitation

APA, MLA, Chicago, and Vancouver plain-text outputs are CSL-style approximations; the page recommends CSL JSON with a CSL processor for strictly conformant rendering.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Site privacy

CASRAI's privacy policy says it uses Google Analytics 4, retains server logs for 30 days, and uses Cloudflare for DNS, caching, and basic DDoS protection.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Stable URLs

The page states that every CASRAI URL is stable across releases and recommends including the dictionary version and CC-BY 4.0 licence in citations.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Supported URLs

It recognises specified dictionary and CRediT paths, the dictionary and CRediT roots, and editorial articles under /news/.Read 8 Oct 2026 · casrai.org

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Citation Generator Tools#17 of 297.6
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