Please include Bluebook legal citation style in Word 2007

[apkawel]

Law students and other legal writers use citations very often. While the
Word 2007 beta includes many different citation styles, Bluebook or ALWD
citations styles (the two most common and most important legal citation
styles) have not been included. Please include them in the final release.
Tens of thousands of law students will thank you for making their lives
easier!

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[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

If it's not in there now, I would not expect it in the final version.
While the citation system in 2007 is neat, I don't consider it
sufficient for any graduate student involved in research. I would
suggest to look into dedicated citation/bibliography managers, e.g.
EndNote. The best thing you can do is take a look at your university
library's website or talk to a librarian. Many universities provide such
programs for students, but this is often not widely known.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Apkawel,

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to the MS Office 2007 product team. While it may not be included in the upcoming initial release of Office 2007's retail product
the suggestion may be something that would come out in the next version or even as a download at some point in the 2007 product
life.

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Law students and other legal writers use citations very often. While the
Word 2007 beta includes many different citation styles, Bluebook or ALWD
citations styles (the two most common and most important legal citation
styles) have not been included. Please include them in the final release.
Tens of thousands of law students will thank you for making their lives
easier! >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

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[Teri]

I completely agree that a Bluebook style would be great. As that's probably
not going to happen, I'd like an easy option to modify existing styles and
essentially create my own style.

In the meantime, here are some commerical software options I've seen:
www.cit-r-us.com - Bluebook practioner, 18th ed. and promises to update as
editions come out.
www.citeit.com - Bluebook and AWLD, uses 17th ed. Bluebook "which is the
most current edition"; note: currently in the process of updateing for Vista
compatability and not available for purchase or download.
www.citationonline.net/9-home.asp - Bluebook (law review & practioner) and
AWLD.

I haven't tried any of them, so I have no idea how good they are. Citation
9 looks decent because it allows you to compile and organize notes as you
research, and then creates the citation when you pull from your notes.

 

[p0]

I completely agree that a Bluebook style would be great.  As that's probably
not going to happen, I'd like an easy option to modify existing styles and
essentially create my own style.

In the meantime, here are some commerical software options I've seen:www.cit-r-us.com- Bluebook practioner, 18th ed. and promises to update as
editions come out.www.citeit.com- Bluebook and AWLD, uses 17th ed. Bluebook "which is the
most current edition"; note: currently in the process of updateing for Vista
compatability and not available for purchase or download.www.citationonline.net/9-home.asp- Bluebook (law review & practioner) and
AWLD.

I haven't tried any of them, so I have no idea how good they are.  Citation
9 looks decent because it allows you to compile and organize notes as you
research, and then creates thecitationwhen you pull from your notes.

Hi Teri,

Unless you only want to change some really basic stuff, like square
brackets instead of round brackets around in-text citations, I would
strongly advise against trying to change any of the existing styles to
fit your needs. The stylesheets provided with Word 2007 are not
cleaned up and contain way more functionality than is used by each of
the styles separately. Also, the templates lack every form of
documentation and take into account different languages and stuff. As
a result, they are highly complex and rather difficult to understand.

Creating your own stylesheet from scratch is much easier if you ask
me. If you are interested in doing so, I suggest you read the blogpost
at
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/bibliography-citations-1011.aspx
to get you started.

At http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography you can find some templates
which could help you with the creation of your own style. I also
implemented an IEEE stylesheet which is a lot less complex than the
ones which come with Word 2007. Maybe you can use it as a guideline.

Yves