Citation Check

Upload one or more briefs, motions, or memoranda and review their citations against the rules that govern where you are filing. Every finding names the rule it rests on, so you can check the call yourself.

Your documents are never saved or stored. Each file is read in memory, checked, and discarded when the results come back. Nothing is written to disk, kept after the request, or sent anywhere else.

1 — Choose the citation rules

Federal courts — Bluebook

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed.), applying the Bluepages conventions for documents submitted to a court.

  • Reporter, circuit, and district abbreviations and their spacing
  • Signal order, short forms, and “id.” under Rules 1 and 4
  • U.S.C., C.F.R., and Federal Register forms
  • Regional parallel citations where a public-domain cite is used (R. 10.3.3)
Illinois state courts

Illinois Supreme Court Rule 6, binding on briefs through Rule 341(g), together with the Style Manual for the Supreme and Appellate Courts of Illinois. The Bluebook fills the gaps.

  • Public-domain citations and paragraph pincites for opinions filed on or after July 1, 2011
  • ILCS statute form, with no section symbol
  • Illinois date conventions for the constitution, rules, and Revised Statutes
  • Parallel citations treated as permitted but not required
Law reviews — Bluebook R. 2

The academic (whitepages) conventions of Rule 2, for a law review article or student note. Case names in full citations are roman, not italic, and citations belong in the footnotes — the opposite of the Bluepages rules the two court profiles enforce.

  • Roman case names in full citations, with procedural phrases and short forms left italic (R. 2.1(a))
  • Italicized signals and history phrases under R. 2.1(d)-(e) rather than Bluepages B2
  • Citations in footnotes, not in the main text (R. 2.2(a))
  • Small capitals for book and periodical names (R. 2.1(b)-(c)) are NOT checked — the document model does not carry that typeface
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2 — Add your documents

Drop documents here, or click to browse

.docx, .pdf, or .txt — up to 10 MB each, and you can select more than one. A .docx also lets the tool check italics.