Sunday, January 25, 2009

Electronic tools for Bluebook citation format

Bluebook citation is always fun to law students. Most of them love to write papers because bluebook citation gives them no stress, only joy! (Don't throw stones at me. ^_^)

Here are two electronic tools for law students who have to cite cases in bluebook format. (Westlaw and lexis help them very little when it comes to bluebook citation.)

1. Academic license: $50.
http://cit-r-us.com/
This tool works with MS Word 2003 and 2007.

2. 90-days free trials. Commericial license is around $14.
http://www.citegenie.com/
Copy lines from Westlaw and lexis. This tool converts it to bluebook format and stores it in Copyboard. You can paste it in your document.

This is Firefox add-on. I had an installation problem, but user forum had a solution. (ex. creating a new profile of Firefox.)

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