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Friday, February 06, 2009

CiteGenie

As the tagline says, CiteGenie is a FireFox plug-in that will:

Automagically copy text with correct citations from Westlaw, Lexis, and other websites.
"We cannot impress too strongly upon counsel in all cases the importance to us of correct citations." Hughes v. Wyatt, 125 N.W. 334, 336 (Iowa 1910).

How does it work?

When CiteGenie™ is installed, it adds a new option to the browser's right-click menu to "Copy with CiteGenie." To use CiteGenie, simply highlight the text in the court opinion, right-click and select the "Copy with CiteGenie" option (or just press Ctrl-Shift-C). Then you can paste the text into any other program, such as your word processor, and the text will be pasted, along with the pinpoint citation for the selected text from the court opinion. This illustrated example shows CiteGenie™ in operation.
CiteGenie™ does not access the web site containing the document you are copying from. What many people don't realize is that when you are vewing a document in your browser, your computer already has a complete copy of that document already in its memory. CiteGenie™ does what a human would do -- it starts from the point where you are copying text, and looks at the surrounding text (already in your computer's memory) to determine the citation for that text.
CiteGenie™ will create ciations in Bluebook, MLA, APA, Chicago, and Wikipedia formats.

Outstanding! This looks very helpful. I haven't had a chance to try it out firsthand since I'm currently looking for a job, but I will as soon as I do.

Via The Trial Practice Tips Weblog.

• Posted by: Marie Carnes at 4:29 PM
• Filed in: Links | Office technology

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