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-This document helps answer the following questions:
-   * What if Zotero does not support the bibliographic style I need?
-   * How do I request additional styles?
-Other questions may be answered at the [[styles_faq|Styles FAQ]].
-======Bibliographic Styles In Zotero======
 Each installation of Zotero comes with a small selection of popular bibliographic styles. In addition, thousands of styles can be found at the online [[/styles|Zotero Style Repository]]. Still, you might find that your style of interest is not yet available. Alternatively, your style may be present, but you may find it erroneous or incomplete. This page will explain what you can do to help the development of new and existing bibliographic styles.
 Zotero makes use of the newly developed XML-based [[http://citationstyles.org/|Citation Style Language (CSL)]] to configure citation formatting. It has been designed to be an open, robust and international-ready standard, independent of any particular application, document format, or programming language. Although CSL has matured significantly, the availability of automated tools to develop and modify bibliographic styles is still limited.
-If you have some technical savvy, and are not afraid to edit XML by hand, take a look at the info on [[dev:creating citation styles|creating styles]], or the [[csl_simple_edits|step-by-step guide]]. If on the other hand you are wary of writing your own CSL style, you can still do a lot of the upfront work in getting the style developed. There is a good chance that one of the more technically inclined members of the Zotero community will help out if you are willing to put in a bit of work to kick things off.
+If you have some technical savvy, and are not afraid to edit XML by hand, take a look at the info on [[dev/Citation Styles|creating styles]], or the [[dev/citation_styles/Style Editing Step-By-Step|step-by-step style editing guide]]. If on the other hand you are wary of writing your own CSL style, you can still do a lot of the upfront work in getting the style developed. There is a good chance that one of the more technically inclined members of the Zotero community will help out if you are willing to put in a bit of work to kick things off.
 ======The Steps To Request New Bibliographic Styles======
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 =====Dependent vs Independent Styles=====
-It is quite common to have multiple publications sharing a certain style (e.g. Nature Biotechnology uses the same bibliographic style as Nature). To avoid having numerous duplicates in the [[/styles|Zotero Style Repository]], all of which would have to be maintained individually, Zotero supports dependent styles. A dependent style (e.g. named "Nature Biotechnology") simply points to the more generic independent style with the same style formatting (in this case "Nature"). As creating dependent styles is generally much faster than creating independent styles, please mention in your style request whether the requested style is already offered in the [[/styles|Style Repository]] under another name.
+It is quite common to have multiple publications sharing a certain style (e.g. Nature Biotechnology uses the same bibliographic style as Nature). To avoid having numerous duplicates in the [[/styles|Zotero Style Repository]], all of which would have to be maintained individually, Zotero supports dependent styles. A dependent style (e.g. named "Nature Biotechnology") simply points to the more generic independent style with the same style formatting (in this case "Nature"). As creating dependent styles is generally much faster than creating independent styles, please mention in your style request whether the requested style is already present in the [[/styles|Style Repository]] under another name.