Zotero 10 + Jurism Feature Request

observerofpeers · 2026-08-23T13:26:04+00:00

Is there a possibility of Zotero adding features similar to Jurism in the near future to properly cite cases, law, legal statues, etc... like Jurism has done? The ability to have a jurisdiction to select from Jurism and have it cite the proper format in the Blue Book or Chicago Manual style was supper helpful. I'm finding citations for legal statues to be not comprehensive in Zotero 10, unless I'm missing something.

aborel · 2026-08-23T13:51:54+00:00

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/130539/new-indigobook-plugin-replicates-many-juris-m-functions/p1

(with a number of updates since then)

AndySymons · 2026-08-26T10:39:36+00:00

I support this request. CNE is a useful add-on but still offers less than Jurism.
I would like to retain the Jurism facility to provide multiple translations and transliterations of almost any field (whether or not used in citations).

I am working on a migration routine from Jurism 6 to Zotero 9 + CNE, but have to go to great pains to preserve information that cannot be stored in native Zotero 9 or CNE, so have to go directly to CSL tags or custom Notes.

https://github.com/AndySymons/Jurism-to-Zotero-migrator

aborel · 2026-08-26T11:11:51+00:00

I think both CNE and Citation-Phoenix, each focusing on different functionalities that used to be available in Jurism, are actively developed as we speak. I'm confident their respective developers would like to hear about possible improvements in their plugins? I assume that functional/architectural gaps should be of particular interest.

AndySymons · 2026-09-04T17:03:55+00:00

@Aborel For me, it is limiting that CNE only includes one target language and script type (English, Latin). I believe you can use a different language than English, but not a different script.

The point is that CNE forces you to pick a target language at the time you create the Item. I would like Jurism's capability to store any number of languages and scripts against the Item in the database, then pick the appropriate ones based on the target language and citation style for the document being drafted.

I should in theory be able to write the same dissertation in German and Russian, citing sources in Chinese, Greek, and French, with appropriate transliterations and translations in each case. Why not?