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AWR Research

Library Resources for writing your AWR.

Introduction to Cite Checking

This part of the guide is designed to help you start your first cite-checking assignment, and is also intended to be a reference that you can return to at any time for assistance with typical cite-checking questions. Please contact LawLibRef@shu.edu if you have questions about individual citations. We are happy to help.

How to Cite Check

Cite-checking is a multi-step process. Each step is discussed on a page of this Guide. 

  1. Preparing & organizing
  2. Locating and pulling sources
  3. Checking sources
  4. Shepardize or Keycite, and check the supplement when applicable
  5. Bluebooking​

Sample Documents Useful for Cite Checking

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