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.

the error is very helpful. where is the file? you need to use the path if it's not in the same directory — rawr, Dec 09 '14 at 19:11
the CSL file is under the Pandoc folder `~\AppData\Local\Pandoc` — Keniajin, Dec 10 '14 at 05:40
do you still get error if you use `csl: ~/appdata/local/pandoc/biomed-central.csl`? — rawr, Dec 10 '14 at 16:23
`pandoc-citeproc.exe: InvalidUrlException "~/appdata/local/pandoc/biomed-central.csl" "Invalid scheme" ` — Keniajin, Dec 10 '14 at 18:30
Thanks @rawr It works if I put the biomed-central.csl on the same folder with the .RMD file — Keniajin, Dec 10 '14 at 18:38

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '14 at 07:29

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

answered Dec 15 '14 at 07:29

Keniajin

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+1. This works. Is it a bug that I cannot specify a path to the `.csl` in a location other than the working directory? – Alex Trueman Oct 28 '15 at 17:25
just like `LaTeX` everything is within the working directory path. – Keniajin Oct 30 '15 at 05:50

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '19 at 13:11

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.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 04 '16 at 15:10

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

answered Oct 04 '16 at 15:10

Johannes Ranke

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Specify CSL styles on RMarkdown

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