csl_unsorted(1)

✨ csl_unsorted — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to csl_unsorted, part of the python3-citeproc family (yes that's the manual we're living in, section 1, we're iconic like that 💅). this is the whole page, nothing skipped, everything preserved. let's go 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

csl_unsorted — output a formatted bibliography from a bibtex file. that's it. that's the job. and it does it beautifully ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

csl_unsorted [options] <bib_file>

options first, bib file second, no cap. give it a <bib_file> and it eats. 🍓

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Output a formatted bibliography from bibtex file <bib_file> to stdout.

so like — you hand it a bibtex file, it hands you back a formatted bibliography, and it just prints it straight to stdout. that's the whole vibe. no files written, no drama, just text on your terminal. main character energy fr fr 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -s, --style=<style>.csl — picks your CSL style file. wanna look fancy? pick a style. note the default is harvard1, so if you don't say anything it's harvard1 hours 🎓
• -f, --format=<format> — picks the output format. your choices are literally plain, html, or rst. and bestie, the default is rst — so that's what you get if you stay silent 🙈

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

ngl, you probably wanna teach it where your CSL styles live, and the way to do that is the CSL_STYLES_PATH environment variable. so like, in a bash shell you'd do something like:

export CSL_STYLES_PATH=$HOME/dev_trees/styles

put the path to your CSL styles in there and you're golden 💛

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

citeproc-py was written by Brecht Machiels <brecht@mos6581.org>. absolute legend, we stan. 🫶

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reminder bestie: it prints to stdout, so redirect it if you want it in a file. that's not me adding features, that's just how stdout works 💅

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okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🍽️ this is python3-citeproc version 0.11.1, dated 19 September 2026, and it's giving timeless. mwah, bye bestie 💖🎀🦋