Overview
CiteRight allows you to insert citations, embed hyperlinks, generate your table of authorities, and create your books of authorities in seconds! Using CiteRight in your drafting process also has important considerations for document assembly and if last-minute changes are required. In this article, you'll learn about how to cite your cases like a pro in a range of formats and styles.
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Citation and pinpoint preferences
Watch this video, or follow the steps below!
Citing your cases using CiteRight
Now that your cases are all added to CiteRight, you can easily view those by opening up CiteRight in Microsoft Word and clicking on a case that you want to cite. See below for how that would work.
Open CiteRight and select a case
Press Cite
Presto! Case cited!
Learn more! Citing a case in Word
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Sometimes you'll be required to email references to your colleagues with web hyperlinks. A helpful tip! Citing a case in Word, applying hyperlinks from the preferences menu, and copying the entire reference to an email retains the web hyperlinks! |
Citing custom references
In many instances, you'll need to cite things other than Canadian caselaw. In those situations, you can always create a custom citation. There are many advantages to creating a custom reference:
- It remains consistent across your documents
- Ibids and supras are formatted automatically
- They will be automatically included in your CiteRight-generated table of authorities
- A placeholder will be created in your book of authorities
Learn more! Not case law? Creating a custom reference
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If you cite a lot of custom references, try to create one document where they're all stored. That way you can easily copy those from one document to another without creating them a second time! |
Understanding the Citation and Pinpoints Preferences
In order to format your citations, you'll need to go to the Preferences section. It can be found in the ribbon of the CiteRight Microsoft Word Add-In as shown below.
Here you will find document-wide settings that affect all citations at once. Learn more about this in the next article!
Making edits to citations
One of the many advantages to using CiteRight is that edits to your citations or pinpoints are really easy to make! All you need to do is click on the reference you'd like to edit and the case text will appear in the side panel.
Note: When you click on a case, the Cite button now changes to Update. This lets you know that CiteRight is ready to swap out or update your existing reference.
Learn more: Changing a reference you've already cited
Learn more: Modifying a reference
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If you are going to be working on a long document, turn off instant rendering. This will stop the system from live updating the CiteRight references as you cite them with ibids, supras, and short forms. Learn more: When to turn on/off Instant Render |
Having trouble?
I'm receiving the "Please insert reference outside of content control" error, what do I do?
Generating a table of authorities
Now that you've cited all your references, a table of authorities is just a click away!
Learn more: Inserting a Table of Authorities