CSL-M is an extended version of CSL (“Citation Style Language”), a stylesheet grammar recognized by Zotero and other popular bibliographic tools. Mainstream CSL documentation applies equally to CSL-M styles; the two sets of documentation should be read together.

In Jurism, the CSL-M stylesheet language works together with a modular approach to jurisdiction-specific styling (not yet documented here) to support legal citation styles for a range of jurisdictions within a single document or bibliography.

In many applications, no special adjustments to a CSL or CSL-M style are needed to support multilingual references, as translations and transliterations can be inserted into citations automatically by the citation processor.