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April 29, 2011

Michael Lines

Zotero: Canadian Legal Style Available

Earlier this month a certain Liam McHugh-Russell uploaded a functional Canadian Legal Style to Zotero's style library here.

Look for the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 7th ed. (McGill Guide), Liam's style handles secondary sources perfectly, as far as I can tell, and performs well for cases and legislation.

When I asked him about the style, he did note that, due to the variety of formats in which citations to cases and legislation are offered online, the style cannot guarantee seamless downloading of citations to primary resources.

That said, I was able to extract a citation from CanLII, and with a bit of fiddling, produce this result in a footnote:

Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) v Fabien, 2011 FC 472 (available on CanLII)

Which is pretty close to perfect. I had to remove a period after the v. supplied by CanLII, copy the complete neutral citation into the Reporter field, eliminate the content of the Date Decided field, and change the URL to "CanLII." Still, mutatis mutandis, I can now cite this decision accurately at the click of a button.

Thanks Liam. This is a very welcome contribution.

Michael is a librarian, webmaster, and researcher at the University of Victoria Diana M. Priestly Law Library. He has an MLS and MA (Medieval History) from the University of Toronto, and is the father of two youngsters.
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5 Comments on “Zotero: Canadian Legal Style Available”

  1. Avram Lyon says:
    April 30, 2011 at 8:25 am

    If you can provide concrete feedback on the issues you encounter saving legal resources from web sources, please post them to the Zotero forums and we'll see what we can do to address them. I know that the legal realm is just aching to see Zotero work for it, and the volunteers who make the project run, including me, are eager to provide.

  2. Adam Baker says:
    April 30, 2011 at 10:37 am

    What about de-italicising "v"? :O

  3. Avram Lyon says:
    April 30, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    If you put the "v" in tags in Zotero, it should show up as non-italic in the actual citation, since Zotero does flip-flopping of italics and some similar things.

  4. Avram Lyon says:
    April 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    tags, that should be.

  5. Avram Lyon says:
    April 30, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Argh. Those should be italics tags, like in HTML. Your comment box won't let me enter them!

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