Zotero plugins designed to improve functionality for legal scholars. Maintained by Dan Epps, Washington University School of Law.
A signal picker for the citation dialog prefix field. Press Ctrl+S while the prefix field is focused to insert a Bluebook signal (See, E.g., Accord, etc.).
More info and install: danepps.github.io/zotero/bluebook-signals
Usage:
Original author: Frank Bennett. Updated for Zotero 9 by Dan Epps, 2026.
⚠️ Beta / experimental. This plugin is in active development and likely buggy. Install only if you want to help beta test and are comfortable reporting issues. Back up any document you run it against.
Rewrites Zotero’s citation output inside the integration pipeline to apply Bluebook rules that CSL alone can’t express cleanly. Runs automatically on every insert/refresh.
Install: Download Bluebook_Citations_Fixer_v0.1.5.xpi
Current rules:
[hereinafter <i>Short Title</i>] to each
work’s first full cite and rewrites subsequent supra note cites to
include the short title (e.g. Epps, supra note 1 →
Epps, <i>Adversarial Asymmetry</i>, supra note 1). Skips Id. cites,
including signal-prefixed forms like See id.(YYYY) parenthetical
for journal articles when the volume number itself is a four-digit
year-like value., at — When a book title ends in a numeral, rewrites bare page
locators into the Bluebook , at <page> form to avoid ambiguous output
like ... 1868 45 (2006).Platform: Word and LibreOffice (RTF output). Google Docs not yet supported.
More plugins coming soon.