A Canadian Legal Style

mlines · July 25, 2008

Let's make a style for us all to use, based on the McGill Guide, 6th ed.

mlines · July 25, 2008

The style I posted at http://www.slaw.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/zoteromcgill.txt handles books and articles fairly well, with the exceptions that articles display with a single quotation mark (since the doubles are an XML operator), and that the authors are first-name, last, not the reverse.

dstillman · July 25, 2008

You can generate double-quotes with """, but you probably want to use quotes="true" to get proper quotes anyway.

mlines · July 25, 2008

Thanks Dan. I'll modify the file and re-post it.

mlines · July 28, 2008

I've reposted it at the above link (using ")...

mlines · November 5, 2008

Some notes for improving this style:

What I have posted in the CSL tracker (https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/csl/) at
https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/csl/mcgill-legal.csl
is very imperfect.

At the suggestion of Bruce D'Arcus, I have created a description of some of the details of the Canadian form, and provided comparisons with the Bluebook Law Review style Bruce created at

https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/csl/bluebook-law_review.csl

Here is a link to the cheatsheet:

http://library.law.uvic.ca/Legal citations reference sheet.doc

bdarcus · November 29, 2008

@mlines: would be nice if this "cheatsheet" were HTML ;-)

And does it include specific issues that lead you to conclude the current style is "very imperfect"?

Seeker51 · March 9, 2009

I'm new to Zotero.... Using MS Word and the Word integration plugin how can I get this style to output footnotes instead of bracketed numbers highlighted in grey?

Thank you

bdarcus · March 9, 2009

@Seeker51: you need to create a new style. See docs.

I never did look at this style, BTW. I would have if the document was more accessible (e.g. HTML).

Seeker51 · March 9, 2009

Unfortunately I'm not really technically inclined and so don't think that I would be able to create the style anew but does this (http://library.queensu.ca/law/lederman/legalcit.htm) include the information you would need?

bdarcus · March 10, 2009

See:

http://www.zotero.org/support/requesting_styles

Eran · May 25, 2009

There should be a comma after the author's name, not a full stop.

Binks · October 21, 2009

Hello,

Because of the age of the thread, I figured that active development here was stopped.

I've tried to restart the conversation in the Style Requests forum:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9489/style-request-canadian-uniform-legal-citation-mcgill-guide/#Item_1

I tried to summarize the state of affairs for the style; if you have any expertise to add or can comment on any omissions I've made, please do so.

Thanks