Overview	Citation is a powerful and easy to use bibliographic database system and notes organizer for research writing. With Citation, you will be able to: Thoroughly research your topic and build a reading list. Organize bibliographic information and notes in database records as you research your topic. Browse through your notes by subject as you are preparing the basic structure and points of your paper. Cite works as you are writing with a short author-date key that points to the record in your datafile. Easily include excerpts from your note records in your paper. Write your bibliographies and references with a click (Citation supports 1000+ predefined citation styles, and provides you with the most powerful and easy to use custom report writer available. It's not only easy. It is quite simply a good idea to use Citation when you are researching a topic and writing. Entering your references and notes as records in a Citation database will give you sorting, searching, and keyword tagging capabilities that simply aren't possible with handwritten notecards, word processing files, or even traditional database programs. Each record can have as many keywords as you like, library call information, and an abstract up to 10 pages in length. You can use Citation just like your speller and thesaurus -- from your word processor's menu, as one of your writing tools. With Citation, you will be able to focus on your writing, and let Citation take care of your organizing notes and writing bibliographic references. This brochure provides you with a brief tour of the basic features in Citation. Use the links in the various sections for more detailed descriptions of how the program works. Return to the contents
Creating databases	Creating databases with Citation is easy. Just choose File, New from the menu, enter a name for the new datafile, and you're ready to start gathering your references and notes as bibliographic records. You can create as many databases as you like, and enter as many records as you need. You can also create shortcuts to your databases for Windows 95/98, so you can open specific databases with just a click, or even from your start menu. You can also create shortcuts to your databases for Windows 95/98, so you can open specific databases with just a click, or even from your start menu. Return to the contents
Entering bibliographic records	There are many ways to add records to your Citation database. You can use BookWhere, for instance, to search library systems and download the records into your database. You can also search topics on internet library and online database services (there are quite a few services now that provide searches for periodicals and full text versions of texts), and copy bibliographic information and notes into your records. There are also a number of instances in which you will want to add records by hand, as you are reading through works and notice citations for interesting sources, and so on. Citation provides you with data entry forms tailored to help you enter complete bibliographic information on almost any type of resource work. To add a record to your database, choose Edit, Add Record, and then select the data entry form from the dialog: Return to the contents
Citation's data entry forms	Citation's data entry forms are specially designed to store pertinent information for particular types of resource works and notes. The basic form for a case, for instance, prompts you to enter information on the case name, year of decision, reporter in which the case is published, jurisdiction, disposition of the court (weight of authority), and so on: Citation also provides you with forms that make it easy to organize research notes: Alphabetized lists of Authors, Journals (Reporters and Services), Keywords and Publishers you have entered in your records help you enter additional data consistently and easily. You can access these lists by clicking on the list button in the field: The search button on the list boxes also makes it easy to browse through your research notes and bibliographic records by topic, author, journal, or publisher (court of jurisdiction). Keywords, authors, and all other pieces of information in your records can be searched and sorted just about any way you like. Each record in your database has an Access Phrase, or a "unique identifier" for the work that you will use to cite the work (or place the note) in your papers. For more detailed information on Citation guidelines for entering data, see: Organizing research notes with Citation Data entry forms for the Legal Edition of Citation. Return to the contents
Writing a list for background materials for your research	As you are researching your topic online, searching library systems with BookWhere, or reading through works that cite sources you think might be useful to your own project, you can enter records in Citation, and tag them with a keyword "readlist" to be included in a list of background reading materials: To generate a lists of works to consult, choose Generate Bibliography, and set the style to Reading List: Return to the contents
Citing authorities in your documents	To cite an authority in your document, you can use the Short List view of your database to locate the work: You can then enter the Access Phrase from the record as a "key" in your document, enclosed in curly braces. Specific page references for pinpoint cites can be added to the key as well: Return to the contents
Writing footnotes in Bluebook style	Once you've placed the keys in your document citing records in your database, writing intext citations, bibliographies and references with Citation is a cinch. Here's how it works. With your paper open in your word processor, choose Tools, Citation, from your word processor menu, and then choose Generate, Citations for document. Choose the style for your citations from the menu: Citation finds the works you've cited in your datafile and writes the footnotes for you: You can reformat the citations in an instant in another publishing style, by simply rerunning Citation and selecting a different style on the dialog. You can set the style to write Bluebook citations into the text of the document, for instance: Return to the contents
Using Citation to collect & organize notes	Keeping thorough and organized notes is an important part of the research process. Citation provides you with special forms for notes that can make collecting and organizing your notes easy and efficient. This is easy to see, given a concrete example. Let's say, for instance, that you were asked to prepare a paper on Supreme Court decisions pertaining to tribal law and jurisdiction. The first thing you would probably want to do is to initiate a search on a service like Findlaw or Lexis: The text of the Supreme Court decisions, which you can reach by clicking on the search results link list on FindLaw, provides you with the information for your bibliographic record for the case (you will need a bibliographic record for most of your notes, and it is easiest to enter the bibliographic record as you are working). Once you have the bibliographic information for relocating the source, you can add note records, and copy sections of text to your note records by using the Windows copy and paste features: As you are researching your topic and collecting notes, you will want to make certain that you enter keywords carefully and consistently, to ensure that you will be able to browse through all your research notes on an issue as you are preparing a memorandum, brief, or article. The keyword list box will help you keep your notes organized and easily retrieved. Return to the contents
Browsing notes and bibliographic records by topic	There are a number of ways to review notes and bibliographic records that pertain to similar topics. You can search for records that contain a keyword, an author name, a journal, or a publisher/court, by using the search button on the list box: You can also browse through records containing a term in any field by using the Search for Record dialog: Return to the contents
Printing Notecards	Citation provides you with an output format to let you write your notes in Notecard format to an open word processing document: Return to the contents
Placing excerpts from your notes in your documents	You can have Citation place excerpts in your note records in your document, as you are writing your citations. Just insert the Access Phrase for the note record into your document: When you generate citations for this document, Citation will locate the Access Phrases for Note records, and replace these with the contents of the note record's excerpt field, as it writes your references: Return to the contents
Citation feature list	Works with any word processor, including MS Word, WordPerfect for Windows, and WordPerfect for DOS. Installs on the Tools menu (or button bars) in WordPerfect 6.0a, 6.1, 7, 8 and Microsoft Word 6.0c, 7, and 97. Notecard like forms make entering data simple and convenient. Includes forms for entering bibliographic data from books, journal articles, legal services and reporters, manuscript collections, films, internet sources, and most other types of materials used in research. Forms can be customized for your own uses. Built in Speller lets you check spelling for text in a field, in a record, or the entire datafile. Powerful and easy to use custom format editor lets you write plain English commands in a text file to create new styles and print out notes in any way you like. Editable versions of major styles (i.e., Chicago, AMA, GSA) available. Author, Journal, and Keyword pop-up list boxes help you enter data quickly and consistently. Journal and Publisher Abbreviation support Global find and edit feature helps you edit data. Find Duplicates feature lets you locate and edit duplicate records and Access Phrases. Allows specific page references for author-date intext cites (Smith 1987: 322), endnotes and footnotes; inclusive pages are included in your bibliography or reference list. Supports shortened subsequent cites for footnotes and endnotes, with short titles. Supports citations of internet resources, such as web pages, docs on ftp sites, and newsgroup items. The Short List View lets you display an index (Author, Year, Title) of your datafile. Supports multiple instances of Citation 7, so you can work on several datafiles at once. Insert excerpts from your database directly into your papers. Search button on list boxes for Authors, Keywords, Journal lets you instantly find records containing terms or names in the list boxes. Provides editable abbreviation lists for law reviews, reporters, services, and courts.
Requirements	The Legal Edition of Citation requires Windows 95 or higher, 8 mb RAM and 12 mb of free disk space.
Evaluate the program	Sign up for the beta test and receive an evaluation copy of Citation's Legal Edition.