use csl-file for pdf-output in bookdown

Question

I would like to use a .csl-file for formatting references with bookdown. Adding csl: some-style.csl to index.Rmd affects the output to

Answer 1

I had the same problem. The following procedure worked for me:

1. Create new project with RStudio and choose "Book Project using bookdown" as option.
2. Download some .csl file from https://www.zotero.org/styles and copy to root of project. In my case: chicago-author-date-de.csl
3. Set in _output.yml citation_package: none
4. Add in all formats (gitbook, pdf_book, epub_book) in _output.yml the line pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]
5. Delete or comment out in index.Rmd the line biblio-style: apalike
6. Replace the content of 06-references.Rmd with # References {-}

Here is my _output.yml file:

bookdown::gitbook:
  css: style.css
  pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]
  config:
    toc:
      before: |
        <li><a href="./">A Minimal Book Example</a></li>
      after: |
        <li><a href="https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown" target="blank">Published with bookdown</a></li>
    download: ["pdf", "epub"]
bookdown::pdf_book:
  includes:
    in_header: preamble.tex
  latex_engine: xelatex
  citation_package: none
  pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]
  keep_tex: yes
bookdown::epub_book:
  pandoc_args: [ "--csl", "chicago-author-date-de.csl" ]