Credits
Viva formats your citations with other people's work. This page says whose, and under what terms. If you are checking whether a reference list Viva produced can be trusted, the short answer is that it comes from the same processor and the same published style definitions that Zotero uses.
The citation processor
citeproc-js
The reference implementation of the Citation Style Language, and the processor Zotero formats with. Viva uses it unmodified, at version 2.4.63.
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2009-2019 Frank Bennett
- Licence
- CPAL-1.0 or AGPL, at our option. Viva elects CPAL-1.0.
The citation styles
Each style Viva offers is a definition published by the Citation Style Language project, used unmodified and licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. The people below wrote them.
APA Style 7th edition
Brenton M. Wiernik, Andrew Dunning, Jay Pfaffman
MLA Handbook 9th edition (in-text citations)
Sebastian Karcher, Andrew Dunning, Patrick O'Brien
Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (author-date)
Andrew Dunning
Cite Them Right 12th edition (author-date/Harvard)
Patrick O'Brien
IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023
Michael Berkowitz, Julian Onions, Rintze Zelle, Stephen Frank, Sebastian Karcher, Giuseppe Silano
Where your references come from
Not from a model. Every reference in Viva is returned by Crossref, OpenAlex or Semantic Scholar with a DOI or another stable identifier, and Viva will not show you one that did not come back from one of them. That is the reason it can take a moment and the reason you can check every entry.
The full third-party notices, including what each licence obliges Viva to do, are kept with the code in packages/csl/vendor/ATTRIBUTION.md.