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This revision corrects several formatting errors in prior implementations and extends coverage to additional source types. Specific changes include: italicizing case names in subsequent short-form citations regardless of whether a title-short is stored, but not full first-occurrence citations; fixing the statute-citation macro's erroneous comma-delimited outer group (which produced 42 U.S.C. , § 1983) by switching to a space delimiter; correcting the et-al-min threshold from 4 to 3 per Bluebook R 30.2.3; eliminating a double-space artifact between the author group and source text by setting the outer citation group delimiter to an empty string; adding explicit bill/legislation and manuscript branches in the subsequent-citation block to prevent impermissible supra forms for statutes and procedural rules; adding a dedicated report branch for Restatements and Model Codes (title in small caps, § number from the Report Number field, institutional publisher in parenthetical); adding a webpage/post-weblog source branch with URL and "last visited" access macro; adding status-variable support in the article-journal branch for forthcoming articles; removing the <substitute> element from name-macro to prevent double-title output for authorless items; suppressing author output for legal_case, legislation, and bill types; removing a spurious <label form="verb-short"> from name-short-macro; suppressing URL and "last visited" output for case and statute citations; adding a legislation/bill branch to the container macro; and splitting bill and legislation into separate source branches so that Zotero Bill items render in Statutes at Large session-law format (title, Pub. L. No. number, § section, volume Stat. page (year)) while legislation items continue to use the codified-statute macro.
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😃 Your submission passed all our automated tests. Below are some sample citations generated based on your proposed changes: bluebook-law-review.csl (modified style)CSL Search by Example, Citation style editor, 2012, https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (last visited Dec 15, 2012); Martin Fenner et al., A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories, 6 Sci. Data (2019). -<i>CSL Search by Example</i>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Citation style editor</span> (2012), https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/; Martin Fenner et al., <i>A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories</i>, 6 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Sci. Data</span> (2019), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0031-8.<br/>
-Tania Galindo-Castañeda et al., <i>Locating the Microbes along the Maize Root System under Nitrogen Limitation: a Root Phenotypic Approach</i>, 136 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ann. Bot.</span> 1143 (2025), https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/136/5-6/1143/8231684; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy</span> (Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes, & Mark Thatcher eds., 2007), https://academic.oup.com/book/5397.<br/>
-Isabela Mares, <i>Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?</i>, <i>in</i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage</span> 184 (Peter A. Hall & David Soskice eds., 2001), https://academic.oup.com/book/301/chapter/134896619.<br/>
+<i>CSL Search by Example</i>, Citation style editor, 2012, https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (last visited Dec 15, 2012); Martin Fenner et al., <i>A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories</i>, 6 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Sci. Data</span> (2019).<br/>
+Tania Galindo-Castañeda et al., <i>Locating the Microbes along the Maize Root System under Nitrogen Limitation: a Root Phenotypic Approach</i>, 136 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ann. Bot.</span> 1143 (2025); <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy</span> (Bob Hancké et al. eds., 2007), https://academic.oup.com/book/5397 (last visited Oct 19, 2025).<br/>
+Isabela Mares, <i>Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?</i>, <i>in</i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage</span> 184 (Peter A. Hall & David Soskice eds., August 30, 2001), https://academic.oup.com/book/301/chapter/134896619 (last visited Jan 7, 2026).<br/>
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This is great! -- I have a couple of questions that might affect actual output and a couple of requests to improve/simplify the code.
For reference for others and posterity: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6416679
Since you already have reference examples in the library, would you consider putting them into a Zotero group? We have a group where we have APA and Chicago Manual examples, it'd make sense to have BB in there, too.
1. Removed unnecessary variable-existence tests per reviewer's comments. 2. Removed unnecessary group wrapper on bill § prefix. 3. Added conditional logic for Pub. L. No. for bills to implement reviewer's comment. 4. Added non-page locators for books (extended with a <choose> on locator="page"). 5. Separated thesis out into its own branch; new version moves it from the newspaper/magazine group and gives a dedicated branch implementing BB Rule 17.2.2 / Indigo Book Rules 28-29. 6. Report type repurposed for administrative law materials, as these are typically government/non-government publications (reports, proposals, guidance) that are not in ordinary paginated legal reporters. The old report branch was formatted like a Restatement and the new version repurposes this for Federal Register entries and similar administrative law materials. 7. Substituted CSL terms instead of hardcoded text values.
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😃 Your submission passed all our automated tests. Below are some sample citations generated based on your proposed changes: bluebook-law-review.csl (modified style)CSL Search by Example, Citation style editor, 2012, https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (last visited Dec 15, 2012); Martin Fenner et al., A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories, 6 Sci. Data (2019). -<i>CSL Search by Example</i>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Citation style editor</span> (2012), https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/; Martin Fenner et al., <i>A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories</i>, 6 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Sci. Data</span> (2019), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0031-8.<br/>
-Tania Galindo-Castañeda et al., <i>Locating the Microbes along the Maize Root System under Nitrogen Limitation: a Root Phenotypic Approach</i>, 136 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ann. Bot.</span> 1143 (2025), https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/136/5-6/1143/8231684; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy</span> (Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes, & Mark Thatcher eds., 2007), https://academic.oup.com/book/5397.<br/>
-Isabela Mares, <i>Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?</i>, <i>in</i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage</span> 184 (Peter A. Hall & David Soskice eds., 2001), https://academic.oup.com/book/301/chapter/134896619.<br/>
+<i>CSL Search by Example</i>, Citation style editor, 2012, https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (last visited Dec 15, 2012); Martin Fenner et al., <i>A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories</i>, 6 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Sci. Data</span> (2019).<br/>
+Tania Galindo-Castañeda et al., <i>Locating the Microbes along the Maize Root System under Nitrogen Limitation: a Root Phenotypic Approach</i>, 136 <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ann. Bot.</span> 1143 (2025); <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy</span> (Bob Hancké et al. eds., 2007), https://academic.oup.com/book/5397 (last visited Oct 19, 2025).<br/>
+Isabela Mares, <i>Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?</i>, <i>in</i> <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage</span> 184 (Peter A. Hall & David Soskice eds., August 30, 2001), https://academic.oup.com/book/301/chapter/134896619 (last visited Jan 7, 2026).<br/>
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Per reviewer's request, added a public Zotero group library that shows conventions for data-entry here: https://www.zotero.org/groups/6479791/bluebook_law_review_style_sample_citations |
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This revision corrects several formatting errors in prior implementations and extends coverage to additional source types. Specific changes include: italicizing case names in subsequent short-form citations regardless of whether a title-short is stored, but not full first-occurrence citations; fixing the statute-citation macro's erroneous comma-delimited outer group (which produced 42 U.S.C. , § 1983) by switching to a space delimiter; correcting the et-al-min threshold from 4 to 3 per Bluebook R 30.2.3; eliminating a double-space artifact between the author group and source text by setting the outer citation group delimiter to an empty string; adding explicit bill/legislation and manuscript branches in the subsequent-citation block to prevent impermissible supra forms for statutes and procedural rules; adding a dedicated report branch for Restatements and Model Codes (title in small caps, § number from the Report Number field, institutional publisher in parenthetical); adding a webpage/post-weblog source branch with URL and "last visited" access macro; adding status-variable support in the article-journal branch for forthcoming articles; removing the element from name-macro to prevent double-title output for authorless items; suppressing author output for legal_case, legislation, and bill types; removing a spurious from name-short-macro; suppressing URL and "last visited" output for case and statute citations; adding a legislation/bill branch to the container macro; and splitting bill and legislation into separate source branches so that Zotero Bill items render in Statutes at Large session-law format (title, Pub. L. No. number, § section, volume Stat. page (year)) while legislation items continue to use the codified-statute macro.
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