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Guide to Zotero for Harvard Law Students

Zotero Content Management System

Zotero is a content management system that is helpful for storing and organizing research materials for scholarly writing.  At HLS, it is primarily used by students who are writing LLM papers and SJD dissertations, although it is freely available to all Harvard affiliates.

Zotero & Bluebooking

Generating Bluebook Citations in Zotero

Zotero has an option for generating Bluebook citations, but it produces citations that are close, but are not perfect.  There is currently no tool that will produce 100% correct Bluebook citations.

You should always double check the content, format, abbreviations and style of generated citations to make sure they are Bluebooked correctly