Short and long versions of lagel case citation

fallischorsch
Need your help!

I need to edit my citation style to get the following results:

Using a legal case the first time it should be:
"Courtname, date, docket number of the case, title long, page"

Using a legal case the next time (and times after that) it should be:
"Courtname, Number of the footnote in my document when i used first time, page"

I use the csl visual editor (http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor) to change my citation style. The first part is no problem for me. I also found out, how to use the condition "if position is first". Now my problem is, I don't know how to get the number of the footnote (when i used the legal case citation the first time in the document) into my following citations.

Please help me
  • adamsmith
    edited August 9, 2015
    you'd just use the variable
    first-reference-note-number
    http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/latest/specification.html#appendix-iv-variables
    though unfortunately you won't be able to preview how that looks in the visual editor.

    You can check existing styles like bluebook or oscola for examples.

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