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by treetalker 675 days ago
I want to love and use Zotero. I really do. But it doesn’t support citation to legal authorities in the standard way that American lawyers (well, litigators and judges) use them.

But guess which profession uses citations probably more times per day than any other: attorneys!

Now guess

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I was under the impression that you could install any custom citation format you need? https://www.zotero.org/support/styles
The problem is that Zotero, and Citation Style Language (CSL) in general, does not support the data required.

See for example:

- https://juris-m.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html

- https://juris-m.github.io/posts/2021-01-17-1.html

Zotero works for only really simple legal citations.