If your firm has recently upgraded from an older version of CiteRight to CiteRight Next, read below for a comprehensive list of all the new features you have access to!
Note: If you are part of a larger firm where IT is managed, your firm will announce the upgrade to CiteRight Next. Please do not download it yourself.
If you are not sure which version of CiteRight you are using, please check out our FAQ article.
Table of Contents
Major new features
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Convert manual citations into CiteRight-compatible ones. Click Citations in the top ribbon to open the menu and begin converting!
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Modify Reference menu expanded with many more customizable fields.
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Pinpoints is now called Edit Citation with more customizable fields.
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This is where you can suppress the style of cause.
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Custom citations are now created and stored at the collection level, allowing you to reuse them in future work!
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Anchor links are separate from hyperlinks and will work on each paragraph number or range. These will be on by default.
Minor New Features
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TOA inclusions are now separate from BOA inclusions.
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No more Update button - pinpoints automatically update while you are selected on an existing citation.
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No more changing an existing footnote to a different case - simply delete and cite a new one.
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Two additional pinpoint options (Rules and Others).
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One additional tab marker option that contains square brackets.
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Option to sync your TOA inclusions with your BOA - available once you have generated your first BOA in the document.
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Documents that have citations made in older versions of CiteRight can be updated. Simply open CiteRight Next and allow it to Migrate.
Other changes
These changes are good to know as workflow tips if you are accustomed to an older version of CiteRight.
- List Citations is now under Citations, and has the ability to locate and convert manual citations.
- List Citations is now called CiteRight Citations Detected, and will put all in-text citations first (order of appearance), then footnotes (order of appearance).
- No more Revert button in the Modify Reference menu for cases.
- No more “instant render” toggle at the top this is now called "render"
- When a BOA is generated, you will need to save the PDF to a particular destination.
- Additional side panels like Modify Reference, Edit Citation, and List Citations, are no longer panels but new pop up windows.
- La Précis (cour d'appel de Québec) not currently supported.
- The side panel now shows you which footnote number you are selected on. E.g. 1 Citation Preview means that you are editing Footnote number 1.
- The Table of Authorities (TOA) generates as multiple tables - you will notice a section for Cases and Other (custom references).